" Mac Strann crushed the hand of Haw-Haw in a terrible grip.

In many respects he favours the Bloodhound, and one may often see Dachshunds which, having been bred from parents carefully selected to accentuate some fancy point, have exhibited the very pronounced "peak" (occipital bone), the protruding haw of the eye, the loose dewlap and the colour markings characteristic of the Bloodhound.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it,if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grassthe same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerowsthe same redbreasts that we used to call "God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops.

These cozy small shacks hid themselves behind a screen of haws among the scattered trees which flanked an ancient fortification, abandoned many years before, I judged, by the grass-grown looks of it.

He stumbled back to his feet and said apologetically to Haw-Haw at the door: "I kind of forgot he wasn't livin', for a minute."

Mac Strann caught Haw-Haw by the arm and dragged him back towards the door.