I was awakened from the doze into which I had fallen by the sound of rapid hoof-beats down the road.

Then the wolf would circle back stealthily and put his nose down into the stag's hoof-marks for a long, deep sniff, and go quietly on his way again.

He started forth for Jerez, And hastening on his course, Trampled the vega far and wide With hoof-prints of his horse.

Either a mixture, such as Percival's, of pitch 2 parts, tar 1 part, and resin 1 part, melted and mixed together, or one of the artificial hoof-horns may either be used with advantage.

Thus, the compound word, shoofly, has been traced by some to the Irish word shoe, meaning a hoof-covering, and the French word fly, meaning an insect, when it is apparent to even the casual observer that it comes from the Guinea word shoo, meaning get out, and the English word fly, meaning a tripe destroyer.

Only prints of soft hoof-pads, leading off to north-eastward, betrayed the line of flight.

The turn of the tide began, The rally of bugles ran, He swung his hat in the van; The electric hoof-spark flew.

" "He only smiles like that when he's awful' angry," said Small Porges shaking his head as the galloping hoof-strokes died away in the distance, "An' what do you s'pose he went back for?" "Well, Porges, it's in my mind that he has gone back to warn our Auntie Anthea of our coming.

As a prophylactic, a good hoof-dressing is indicated.

Then did the horse-hoofs resound With the galloping, galloping of their steeds.

Gabriel leaned his feathered head over the road, listening for hoof-falls and watching for the first puff of dust in the direction of Prairie du Pont.