It had been the writer's intention to commemorate this very sporting annual event. by the repetition of a narrative poem of elevated character describing the exploits of a famous huntress of other days entitled "The Farmer's Fair Daughter." It began thus:
The former's fair daughter bucked over the water.
And rode in the style the butcher-boy taught her.
She was clad in a pair of her father's best breeches And tickled her mount when she came to the ditches.
However, long residence in the Far East has dimmed the memory, that only the first few lines of this
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.