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'In for a stinger, my lurd, observed Jack, returning his horn to the case. 'Hope so, replied his lordship, pocketing his. They then flew the first fence together. 'F-o-r-r-ard! screamed Jack in the air, as he saw the hounds packing well together, and racing with a breast-high scent.
On the contrary, as hounds that have several times lost the scent, hitherto faint, but once more recovered, and now fresher and stronger than ever, they press on with ardour not only renewed, but heightened. All at once, however, a shout from Cypriano interrupts the rapidity of their progress in short, bringing them to a halt he himself suddenly reigning up as he gives utterance to it.
"We watched the devil coming for him yon night; we watched his coming, ay, away far out on the sea, the black stallions stretched to the gallop like racing hounds, and the hoofs o' them striking white fire frae the water, and the flames o' hell curling and twisting round the wheels o' his chariot.
He had gone too far to recede, however, and so submitted quietly to the directions of the doctor; and, after following the injunctions given by that learned Esculapius, was put to bed. Shortly after, the sound of the horns and the yelp of the hounds announced that the poor fox had taken the back track, and was repassing near the house.
Still for the present the old life was there, and he threw himself into it with eager zest, though age and care put some of the former habits aside. He resumed his hunting, and Lafayette sent him a pack of splendid French wolf-hounds. But they proved somewhat fierce and unmanageable, and were given up, and after that the following of the hounds was never resumed.
Shelley, in his "Ode to Naples," full of the enthusiasm excited by the intelligence of the proclamation of a Constitutional Government at Naples, in 1820, thus uses an allusion to the basilisk: "What though Cimmerian anarchs dare blaspheme Freedom and thee? a new Actaeon's error Shall theirs have been, devoured by their own hounds!
"They are looking for the other hounds," said Fionn. "And yet they do not give tongue! Tongue it, a Vran!" he shouted, "Bell it out, a Heo'lan!" It was then they looked at him, the look which he could not understand and had never seen on a chase.
How solemn and long-visaged he is how peaceful and well-disposed! He is the Quaker among dogs. All the viciousness and currishness seem to have been weeded out of him; he seldom quarrels, or fights, or plays, like other dogs. Two strange hounds, meeting for the first time, behave as civilly toward each other as if two men.
I have proved this by experience, having brought a pack of splendid hounds from England, only one of which survived a few months' hunting. The hound required for elk-hunting is a cross between the fox-hound and blood-hound, of great size and courage, with as powerful a voice as possible.
I spent some time riding about to learn the country, and at intervals, my guide would point to the skeleton of a cow to which the hide still adhered, and remark, "That's some of his work." It became quite clear to me that, in this rough country, it was useless to think of pursuing Lobo with hounds and horses, so that poison or traps were the only available expedients.
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