Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-16

heavy inleres. in disabling him from being in
at the death, galloped towards the spot or his
powerful hunter, with the brutal design OF up
setting the pony and its rider. The sagacious
animal, however, bottled on one side, by which
he would lnfallibly have made transfer OF his
rider, had the rider not appealed to the pu m
mel and the name, when, accepting the omen
of his pony's ears which now poisted home
wards, he Quilted the hunt, and assembled 1T
tie eminence whence he again commanded
fell view Of the field. From this point ne saw
the poor hare, after having exhausted her start.
ing speed, and left the dogs long way behind
her, make her first double and return upon a
different track towards the form from which
she had been dislodged. At intervals she halt
ed, as if considering what slratagems and sub
,erfuges she could adopt, after which hasty coun-
sci with her own sad thoughts, she would de-
scribe labyrinth of turnings and windings and
again spring forward in straight line.
But the sure and relentless hounds tracked
her through all her crossings and doublings,
forced her from sheepeot into which she had
stolen for refuge, and the Alderman presently
saw her limping sorely and painfully towards
him. stopping to listen, then totterlng little
farther, and again stopping, while the helea-
guering ours, fraught with a hundred deaths,
grew nearer and louder, and poured down her
large open ears, and seemed TO madden her We
ny brain. At this spectacle his bosom melted
with compassion: and as The poor animal, with
last convulsive effort, leaped upon clipped
quickest hedge close beneath him, and scram-
bed along its top TO cheat her enemies CT the
scent, he hastily took out his purse, in the ON
impotence Of which he had great confidence, and
offered five pounds 10 any one that would save
her But it was too late; The raVening dogs
rushed in upon their prey as she ,Gmbled from
the Ledge. and shor, plieous shrek that went
10 his very heart, announced the contamination
Of what is unfeelingly denominated days sport
Such were the Alderman's feelings as he
himself related them to me during our ride
home together, circulating in conclusion
"I,s bad spec sir, Flemish account, los
ing concern, this hunting; men, horses, and
dogs. all seized with sudden madness, risking
lives, destroying property, whole district dis
turbed and up in arms to torture to death
little inoffensive hare. Every thing should be
seen once, but have seen enough, and too much
of it; have done with it."
eff every thing should be seen once" said J.,
"you will probably join our pheasant shooting
party tomorrow "Not such an ass, exc,ai-
med my companion bluntly. "Made my APP
pearance among the Nimrods, but fight shy Of
the ramrods; don't stand out to shoot, and COM
ming home shot. He must be an awkward
sportsman indeed tina. don't bring down one
friend in a season At our life Assurance
proposed clause--'Warrante not to so shoo-
ting with any friend or friends but they scou-
ted it-more fools tney--Then if your compan-
ions hit the Birds and miss you, they take good
care, in crossing style, or scrambling through
hedge, TO deposit eighty or ninety shot snug
under your hip bone, or your pointer put his
paw upon your trigger, a'-' -! L.. i" sly
bow your eyes out; or you yourself, Tor lear OF
accidents, discharge your gun as you reach
home, wheu it cxplodes in your hand, and you
sit down comfortably in your own parlour, leav.
ing your thumb top of neighbouring tree,
and having three fingers dangling by little
bit of skin. They who thus lay their own lives
against that Of pheasant, may be making
fair bet; butH think mine worth trihe more,
and besides, Ihale to be giving unnecessary
trouble to a coroner"
Here we particular as pursued my ride a.
lone had leisure to fehec, upon the folly of lay
ing the long odds, for hhad been one of the SIM
petons who had wagerea pretty deeply against
the alderman's being in a, the death, all which
bets were decided to have lost, although he had
not regularly followed the ho,nds and was only
present by accident al the destruction Of he
hare.