And 'twill sing to a fox for a whole winter day.

Last year at Rook's Rough, just as Ben put 'em in,

'Twas Fan found the rogue who was curled in the whin;

She pounced at his brush with a drive and a snap,

"Yip-Yap, boys," she told 'em, "I've found him, Yip-Yap;"

And they put down their noses and sung to his line

Away down the valley most tuneful and fine.

'Twas a point of ten miles and a kill in the dark

That scared the cock pheasants in Fallowfield Park,

And into the worry flew Fan like a shot