When Robin Hood heard what had been proclaimed he was vexed, and said, "Now beshrew this Sheriff that he should offer such a prize that none but shepherd hinds will care to shoot for it!

With a rifle in his hand, a general knowledge of the surrounding forest, and a couple of gillies, give him the wind of a royal stag feeding amongst his hinds, and despite the feminine jealousy and instinctive vigilance of the latter, an hour's stalk would put the lord of the hills at the mercy of Dick Stanmore.

The Berwickshire hinds are somewhat notorious for their migratory habits, in which some observers have found a survival of the restlessness which characterised their ancestors in former times, and was alike the result and the cause of the old Border Forays.

The land in this parish slopes down to the Firth of Forth; it is rich and well cultivated, and is divided into large farms, each of which has its group of red-roofed buildings, its substantial farmhouse, and its long tail of hinds' cottages.

A good part of his visiting had to be done in the country, because a considerable section of his congregation consisted of farmers or hinds from Northumberland, from the "Liberties of Berwick," and even from Scotland, which first begins three miles out from the town.

"Late in the evening it was transferred to the chapel of Our Lady of the Fever, and deposited in a corner by six hinds or porters and two carpenters, who had made the coffin too narrow and too short.

" Mr. Littlejohn Rynes, Hinds Co. Mi.

As fortune would (his fortune came, though late) He took possession of his just estate: Nor rack'd his tenants with increase of rent; Nor lived too sparing, nor too largely spent; But overlook'd his hinds; their pay was just, 920 And ready, for he scorn'd to go on trust: Slow to resolve, but in performance quick; So true, that he was awkward at a trick.

Nor consecrated grain their wheat he thought, Which, new from treading, in their bills they brought: But left his hinds each in his private power, That those who like the bran might leave the flour.

After a land-looking tour through Alabama and Louisiana, Dabney chose a tract in Hinds County, Mississippi, some forty miles east of Vicksburg, where he bought the property of several farmers as the beginning of a plantation which finally engrossed some four thousand acres.

[Footnote 22: Hammond MSS., Library of Congress.] Philips, whom a dearth of patients drove early from the practice of medicine, established in the 'thirties a plantation which he named Log Hall, in Hinds County, Mississippi.

"On my return home I showed the little book to my mother, and as she held it in her hinds and read a word here and there, she too began to journey backward to her school days, and asked my father to bring out her treasure chest, and from it she took her school relics,a tattered ribbon watch-guard fastened by a flat gold buckle that Mrs. Rowson had given her as a reward for good conduct, and a package of letters.

You sho'ly got the hafe o' Hinds County on you ...

TOWSLEY, LENA. SEE Hinds, Lena Towsley.

J. G. Hinderer (A); 11Sep62; R302693. HINDS, LENA TOWSLEY.

Lena Towsley Hinds (A); 6Sep62; R300631.

BALDWIN, MARY H. The merigold cook book, by Mary H. Baldwin & Evelyn G. Hinds.

Mrs. Lex N. Sewall (C of E. G. Hinds); 21Jun65; R363582.

By Leslie A. Kenoyer & Frank J. Hinds.

Aletha K. Kenoyer (W) & Frank J. Hinds (A); 9Jul73; R555269.

J. G. Hinderer (A); 11Sep62; R302693. HINDS, LENA TOWSLEY.

Lena Towsley Hinds (A); 6Sep62; R300631.

The King of England, on hearing thereof, gathered a great mass of fawns, hinds, does, and bucks, taken in his forests in Normandy and Aquitaine; and having had them shipped aboard a large covered vessel, with suitable fodder, he sent them by way of the Seine to King Philip Augustus, his liege-lord at Paris.

I neither can nor will, unless I learn it By his example: let him use his harsh Unsavoury reprehensions upon those That are his Hinds, and not on me.

Now advance in play, a score of fawns and hinds in front of the herd, moving in their own light as it were, and skipping and leaping and scattering the dew from the green sward with their silvery feet, like fairies dancing on a moonbeam, and dashing its light drops on to the fairy ring with their feet of ether.