Said Beltane at last: "Messire, thou dost hear the hounds?"

"They had followed the hounds on to one of the side tracks which led out of the main drive, and that divided into a smaller track still, where the branches switched across their faces as they went, and there was barely room for one horse at a time.

They were not equal to those raised in North Carolina, for keeping the lazy hell-hounds, as he called the slaves, at work.

Dick had just sunk a large part of his fortune in this place, he had taken over the hounds and was certain of becoming popular.

Here, huntsman, bring (But without hurry) all thy jolly hounds, And calmly lay them in.

He called the hounds to order with hoarse oaths and furious crackings of the whip, and as he did so the rest of the field began to arrive, a laughing, trampling crowd of sportsmen who dropped into staring, astounded silence as they reached the scene.

I saw no hound.

Lafayette, Marquis de: visits Washington, 27; Washington's letter to regarding "Royal Gift," 138; sends Washington a jackass and two jennets, 140; last visit to Washington, 240; sends Washington some hounds, 259.

Lesage had shrunk away into the corner in a frenzy of fear whilst Toussac had been killing the hound, but now he raised his agonised face, which was as wet as if he had dipped it into a basin.

He had with him a bottle of ointment made of turpentine and onions, a preparation used to throw hounds off a trail.

His vixen had at once sprung into Mr. Tebrick's arms, and before he could turn back the hounds were upon them and had pulled them down.

Is bred the perfect hound, in scent and speed As yet unrivalled, while in other climes Their virtue fails, a weak degenerate race.

And when I'm done, Black Roger shall hang what's left of thee, ere he go to feed my hounds.

If the colored folks had started an uprisin the white folks would have set the hounds on us and killed us.

This name was applied because Mr. Stafford raised and trained blood hounds to track runaway slaves and to sell to slaveholders of Maryland, Virginia and other southern states as far south as Mississippi and Louisiana.

"I guess we may as well hang around camp and rest the hounds," replied Jones.

And so the child lay sleeping in his crib, With Gelertyou remember the old hound?

Mr. Brough bred and produced many hounds, which all bore the stamp of his ideal, and there is no doubt that for all-round quality his kennel stands first in the history of the Bloodhound.

"It was just the sort of stuff I should have expected a treacherous, sneaking hound like you to say.

In this isle remote Our painted ancestors were slow to learn, To arms devote, of the politer arts Nor skilled nor studious; till from Neustria's coasts Victorious William, to more decent rules Subdued our Saxon fathers, taught to speak The proper dialect, with horn and voice To cheer the busy hound, whose well-known cry His listening peers approve with joint acclaim.

He, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness 5 Actaeon-like; and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts along that rugged way Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey.

" "We once lost a valuable hound while moose hunting," said Mr. Wood.

When we reach the grass the syces and keepers hold the hounds at the corners outside, while we ride through the grass urging on the terriers, who, quivering with excitement, utter short barks, and dash here and there among the thick grass, all eager for a find.

This slave could elude the best blood hounds in the State.

And, yet again, all is a-bustle here with scarlet-coated horsemen and baying hounds and hurrying black boys and all that goes to "Proclaim a hunting-morning.