Text page for "Creeping a Finish" (Primary Title)
Hunting Qualifications (Series Title)
Henry Thomas Alken, English, 1785–1851 (Artist)
Printed on front: "CREEPING A FINISH. / NOW comes the finishing tug, which can be seen only by the tip-top, / and, by the bye, it may be felt too. Just this one field and we have / him ! Forward, forward, my merry dogs ! who areany thing but merry : / even Merriman himself has turned Doleful. Now, Danger--now, / Dauntless; but you might as well can to Dunce and Drunkard--only / one field more ! / [verse] And so they creep from field to field ; / Renard gets slow, but willnot yield : / O'er fences and ditches so low and so thin, / Some manage to tumble, and others get in ; / With forward ! hark, forward, hey, on and away ! / Or the night will come on ere we finish the day."
Inscribed in graphite on verso: "HRH 20 / 24A / 1"
Paul Mellon Collection
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