Anonymous

“ Since for strength, and for speed, so well known is my fame,
That I justly am reckon'd the first amongst hounds:
Yet our chace like the Fox-hounds, with danger abounds,
Nay, is sometimes attended with fatal effects,
As in hunting of Stags, men have broken their necks. ”

“ Keen and swift in the chace, I can boldly declare
From my speed, as I follow, in vain flies the Hare;
Nay, while like the wind, I bound over the course
My master comes lagging behind on his Horse.
'Twixt friends, I could laugh, at beholding the fuss
And boasting men make of success due to us;
The truth is so obvious 'tis scarce worth enforcing;
Without our assistance they could not go coursing."
[Pg 5]
"Then the hound & the Grey-hound both flew at the poodle"
"All you say," quoth the Harrier, "dear coz, is most true,
Yet I think it but just, to give each Dog his due ”

“ I to men some good turns have done in my day.
[Pg 9] When the sportsman returns to his meal, what avail
Your ranging, and pointing, and high stiffen'd tail?
Of your posture so graceful, good Sir, you may boast it; [A]
A quoi bon your game, if I did not roast it?"
A bristly Scotch Terrier, his eyes black and keen,
Thus attack'd the last speaker—"Pray what do you mean?
To boast of your service no longer of use;
If you still roasted meat, there might be some excuse;
But Smoak-jacks, and Rumfords, and other new hits
Ease you (thank the Dog Star) from turning of spits. ”