He has done it well to get that
he has killed away, or they would have stopped on him!
Hush! the leaves rustle here beside me, with a quick patter--the twigs
crackle--it is he! Move not! not for your life, Peacock! There! he has
broken cover fairly! Now he is half across the field! he stops to
listen! Ah! he will head again. No! no! that crash, when they came upon
the warm blood, has decided him--away he goes, with his brush high, and
its white tag brandished in the sunshine--now I may halloa him away.
"Whoop! gone awa-ay! whoop!"
I was answered on the instant by Harry's quick--"Hark holloa! get
awa-ay! to him hark! to him hark! hark holloa!"
Most glorious Artemis, what heaven-stirring music! And yet there are but
poor six couple; the scent must be as hot as fire, for every hound seems
to have twenty tongues, and every leaf an hundred echoes! How the boughs
crash again! Lo! they are here! Bonny Belle leading--head and stern up,
with a quick panting yelp! Blossom, and Dangerous, and Dauntless
scarcely a length behind her, striving together, neck and neck; and, by
St. Hubert, it must be a scent of twenty thousand, for here these heavy
Southrons are scarcely two rods behind them.
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