To end a long day's ride,
And what to them is chance and change
While they sit side by side."
Years afterwards, when many other things have turned to bitterness or disappointment, comrades of the hunting field will be a solace and a pleasure to each other, and the mistress of the hounds, when no longer following their cry, will be with them in spirit, will be interested to the points of each run, the performance of each pack, and her heart will ever beat true to
"The friends for whom, alive or dead, her love is unimpaired;
The mirth, and the adventure, and the sport that they have shared."
Lina Chaworth Musters.
FOX-HUNTING.
"The sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger."