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I'd heard Lory say she was eighteen years old and that once she was gray, but now she's white as a first snow-fall. "'How would old gray Molly do, Raven? presently asks Lory. "'Do? Has she ever hunted? asks Raven.
"We're packing, sir," said the sailor who tied my punt. "Packing? Why?" "Orders, sir." Without loss of time I hunted up Tommy, finding him and Bilkins busy at carpentry. "What's in the wind?" I brusquely demanded, forgetting that Tommy was rather particular about the way people addressed him.
"I'll shoot him unless he prefers cold steel, and then I shall serve him as I served General Griscelli; and 'pon my soul I believe Griscelli was the least rascally of the two! I would as lief be hunted by blood-hounds as be stabbed in the back by anonymous slanderers!"
As the hunted man felt the clasp upon his robe he uttered a little short, sharp cry, and made as if he would have stopped short; but Cuthbert had him fast by the arm, and hurried him along the narrow alley towards the river, upholding him over the rough ground, and saying in short phrases: "Fear nothing from us, holy Father; we are friends. We have come to save you.
Well, this orang outang got out o' his cage one night, an' in the mornin' he couldn't be found. We hunted an' hunted, an' the next night nobody wanted to go to sleep fer fear he'd wake up dead. The cap'n had his family aboard and the wife she was 'most scart stiff an' wouldn't hardly leave her room." "And did you find the orang outang?" asked Songbird, with interest. "We did an' we didn't.
Then another feller says, says he, "I tell ye we've got to find him; 't won't do to let him git away there'll be hell to pay." Thayor shook his head gloomily. "What have I done, Dinsmore, that I should be hunted even like you?" he sighed. For some moments the hide-out did not speak. Finally he continued: "I had a reason for what I done," and a strange glitter came into his eyes. "See here, Mr.
Whirling their bolas round their heads, they quickly entangle the animal's limbs, and then, throwing their lassoes over it, drag it along the ground till rendered insensible, when its brains are quickly beaten out. In Chili it is hunted with dogs, or, driven up a tree, is easily shot. It is noted for its craft.
Lawrence, Tandakora, the huge Ojibway who had hunted him so fiercely, St. Luc, De Courcelles, and all the others who had passed out of his life for a while, though he felt now, with the prescience of old King Hendrik, that they were coming back again.
"We have hunted for more than a year for you," I whispered, bending over her, "but the Sioux murdered our messenger and the other you yourself let out of the tent!" "That your messenger for me?" she asked in sheer amazement, proving what I had suspected, that she was kept in ignorance of our efforts. "I have been here for a week, searching the lodges.
Father couldn't have done a better thing for himself and all of us than get hit as he did. It kept him and us out of harm's way, and put them off the scent, while they hunted Moran and Burke and the rest of their lot for their lives. They could hardly get a bit of damper out of a shepherd's hut without it being known to the police, and many a time they got off by the skin of their teeth.
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