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Gradually the space widened, and as we neared the cedars, a sharply defined, deep canyon separated us. We heard Don open up, then Sounder. Ranger left the trail he was trying to work out in the thick sage, and bounded in the direction of the rest of the pack. We reined in to listen. First Don, then Sounder, then Jude, then one of the pups bayed eagerly, telling us they were hunting hard.
Here was a new danger: and I liked it so little the prospect of being bayed naked through those pitch-dark shrubberies by a pack of hounds that I broke from my covert of laurel, hurriedly skirted the broad patch of light on the carriage sweep, and plumped down close to the windows, behind a bush of mock-orange at the end of the verandah, whence a couple of leaps would land me within it among Miss Belcher's guests.
She was coiled, her head was up, and her rattles agoing, and so I finally lit out But I'm sort of fat, and they over-ran me. They bayed me against the sea-wall, and all I had the heart to do was to hold 'em off some more. Soon as I got my wind I shook 'em off a second time and run some more, but they downed me. By that time we'd begun to gather quite a crowd. ...
I heard the melodious tinkle of the bells on the hobbled horses. Bossy bawled often a discordant break in the serenity of the night. Occasionally the hounds bayed her. Toward morning I slept some, and awakened with what seemed a broken back. All, except R.C., were slow in crawling out. The sun rose hot. This lower altitude was appreciated by all.
His flotilla, as it proceeded southward, instead of being hailed and boarded by eager recruits, was bayed by the watch-dogs of the law, civil and martial. Intrusive messengers from the courts and officious colonels of raw militia regiments pestered and threatened; those, with paper warrants from local magistrates, these, with flintlock muskets in reserve.
The horse wanted no driving, but walked right into the yard and across to a large open shed, while five dogs there were not six barked and bayed at me, tugging at their chains.
I yelled to Jones. "Hi! Hi! Hi!" he joined his robust yell to mine, and for a moment we made the canyon bellow. When we stopped for breath the echoes bayed at us from the opposite walls. "Waa-hoo!" Emett's signal, faint, far away, soaring but unmistakable, floated down to us.
So when night came on, the little dog grew weary of sitting there: "Bow-wow, bow-wow," he said, and bayed at the moon. Just then up came a fox, prowling and sneaking, and thought here was a fine time for marketing, and with that gave a jump, head over heels down into the pitfall.
With a sudden twist and thrust that took him by surprise she wrenched from his grasp; was a flight of stairs away before he had recovered his wits; across the hall and running shaking, hysterical down the street. Thereafter men were a constant horror to her adding a new and most savage beast to the wolves of noise, of desolation and of despair that bayed about her in this grinding city.
They returned their swords to the scabbards, and were for trusting to their fists alone. I contrived to give one of them a smart tap on the crown before they came to close quarters; but ere I could recover myself they were upon me, the staff was wrenched from my grasp, and I was as hard put to it as a stag bayed by hounds.
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