This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...hounds came pouring down upou the spot followed by a drove of ponies, who seemed to join the chase to show how soon they would be beaten off. The hounds were well called the Stout-as-Steel, for they ran as hard now after traversing so many miles of rough moorland country as they did at first. Let stag-hunters say what they will, five miles hard running is no joke. FOLLOWED BY HIS OLD ENEMIES, THE CROWS. The field had now a perfect panoramic view of the chase, without more trouble than they would be put to at the Diorama, or any London show. A splendid sun lit up the wild mountain scenery, while a slight tinge of frost rarefied the air, bringing distant objects near, and causing the music of the hounds to fall like thunder on the scene--reverberating like Mons..Tullien's band of a hundred and twenty performers at a "Bal Masque." Presently they had fox and all in view, and beautiful it was, watching the unerring truth with which the pack followed his every twist and turn and bend. There he was creeping and stealing along, not at the high galloping defying pace at which he started, but coolly and collectedly, as though conscious of the work he had to do. So he returned about a hundred yards below the line he had taken in going, followed by a large flock of his old enemies, the crows, who kept a noise up overhead second only to that of the hounds behind. Luckless reynard, when so pursued, for you rarely escape destruction! So it was this day. The striving pack gained on him just, as one race-horse gains on another. The fatal view at last ensued! A dodge, a snap, and a cataract of hounds as usual ended the scene! CHAPTER IX. Mr. Jenkins Jones. ""who-hoop!" "Who-hoop! that's a queer way of beginning a chapter, Mr....

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