Thick with entangling grass or prickly furze,

With silence lead thy many-coloured hounds

In all their beauty’s pride.”—Somervile.

Plate II.—THE FIND.

“Hark! what loud shouts

Re-echo thro’the groves: he breaks away;

Shrill horns proclaim his flight; each straggling hound

Strains o’er the lawn to reach the distant pack.

’Tis triumph all and joy.”

“Hark! on the drag I hear