. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. s, assemblies and masquerades, so exhaustthe spirits of the puny creatures over-night, that yawn-ing and chocolate are the main labours and entertain-ments of the morning. The important afiairs ofbarber, milliner, perfumer, and looking-glass, aretheir employ till the call to dinner, and the bottle orgaming table demand the tedious hours that inter- G 82 THE WILLEY SQUIEE. yene before the return of tlie eyening wonder, then, if such busy, trifling, efieminatemortals are heard to swear they haye no notion ofyenturing their bo
. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. s, assemblies and masquerades, so exhaustthe spirits of the puny creatures over-night, that yawn-ing and chocolate are the main labours and entertain-ments of the morning. The important afiairs ofbarber, milliner, perfumer, and looking-glass, aretheir employ till the call to dinner, and the bottle orgaming table demand the tedious hours that inter- G 82 THE WILLEY SQUIEE. yene before the return of tlie eyening wonder, then, if such busy, trifling, efieminatemortals are heard to swear they haye no notion ofyenturing their bodies out-of-doors in the cold air inthe morning ? I haye laughed heartily to see suchdelicate smock-faced animals judiciously interruptingtheir pinches of snufi with dull jokes upon fox-hunters ; and foppishly declaiming against an artthey know no more of than they do of Greek. Itcannot be expected they should speak well of a toilthey dare not undertake ; or that the fine thingsshould be fit to work without doors, which are of thetaylors creation.*. Childers, Pilot, and Pigmy. CHAPTER VII. THE WILLEY KENNELS. The Willey Kennels—Colonel Apperley on Hunting a HundredYears ago—Character of the Hounds—Portraits of Favourites—Original Letters—Style. Tantivy! the huntsman he starts for the chase,In good humour as fresh as the mom,While health and hilarity heam from his face,At the sound of the mellow-toned horn. The style of hunting in vogue in Squire Forestersday was, in the opinion of authorities on the subject,even more favourable to the development of bodily 84 THE WILLEY KENNELS. strength and endurance than now. The late , of Barrow, was wont to say that it wasno unusual thing to see Moody taking the houndsto cover before daylight in a morning. The Squirehimself, like most other sportsmen of the period,was an early man. Col. Apperley says: With our forefathers,when the roost-cock sounded his clarion, theysounded their horn, throwing off the pack so soonas
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