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He was therefore a most valuable book of reference, which told nothing except to his owner. With all this he was a great rider and loved hunting. His Sursum Corda was like a view-holloa, and when he said, Ite missa est, you would have sworn he was crying a stag's death instead of his Saviour's.
Creeping up the stairs before us, each on the tip of his silken toes, was a serried file of pink barbarians, redder in the face than anywhere else, and armed with crops carried by the wrong end. The monumental person with the short moustache led the advance. The fool stood still upon the top step to let out the loudest and cheeriest view-holloa that ever smote my ears.
My hunting experience, however, had given me a quick eye to see my way out of a difficulty; and espying a green baise door on my right I rushed through it, and down a flight of stone steps that led I knew not where. Giving a view-holloa that must have startled every light sleeper in the house, Sir Guy followed close in my wake, dropping the silver candlestick with a most alarming clatter.
Long they hunted through the wood, long they slept upon the hillside; In the forest sought their food, drank when thirsty at the rill-side; No exposure counted hard theirs was hunting border-fashion: They grew bearded like the pard, and their chase became a passion: Even friends esteemed them mad, said their minds were out of balance, Mourned the cruel fate and sad fallen on the poor Van Valens; But they answered to it all, "Only wait our loud view-holloa When the prey shall to us fall, for to death we mean to follow Jack, the Regular."
"You hunted them indeed," interrupted Harry, "you old rhinoceros, why hang your hide, you never so much as heard a good view-holloa till I came up here you hunted them a man talk of hunting, that carries a cannon about with him on horseback; but come, where are we to try first, on Rocky Hill, or in the Spring Swamps?"
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