PAGE The stables were alive with din 5 An old man with a gaunt, burnt face 16 All sport, from bloody war to craps 80 The Godsdown Tigress with her cub 96 A sea of moving heads, and sterns 120 His chief delight 128 He had a welcome and salute 144 The scarlet coats twixt tree and spray 153 And now they gathered to the gamble 162 He saw the farms where the dogs were barking 172 There he slept in the mild west weather 182 The boy's sweet whistle and dog's quick yaps 185 He faced the fence and put her through it 222 A white horse rising a dark horse flying 256 Then down the slope and up the road 291 He ran the sheep that their smell might check 295 With a cracking whip and "Hoik, Hoik, Hoik, Forrard" 303 He saw it now as a redness topped 313 And man to man with a gasp for breath 330 For with feet all bloody and flanks all foam 336 COLOR PLATES First colored plate _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Second colored plate 28 Third colored plate 86 Fourth colored plate 150 Fifth colored plate 210 Sixth colored plate 236 Seventh colored plate 250 Eighth colored plate 338 PART I THE MEET REYNARD THE FOX, OR THE GHOST HEATH RUN The meet was at "The Cock and Pye By Charles and Martha Enderby," The grey, three-hundred-year-old inn Long since the haunt of Benjamin The highwayman, who rode the bay. The tavern fronts the coaching way, The mail changed horses there of old. It has a strip of grassy mould In front of it, a broad green strip. A trough, where horses' muzzles dip, Stands opposite the tavern front, And there that morning came the hunt, To fill that quiet width of road As full of men as Framilode Is full of sea when tide is in.