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In a twinkling half as many young fellows had leapt from the windows, and surrounded him. "Who-whoop!" cried one, "Who-whoop!" "Steady, gentlemen, steady!" the Colonel said, a note of sternness in his voice. "I've no objection to joining you, or to a little timely frolic, but " "Join us you will, whether or no!" replied one, more drunken or more turbulent than the rest.
A better day's sport even the Quorn had never had in all its brilliant annals, and faster things the Melton men themselves had never wanted: both those who love the "quickest thing you ever knew thirty minutes without a check such a pace!" and care little whether the finale be "killed" or "broke away," and those of the old fashion, who prefer "long day, you know, steady as old time; the beauties stuck like wax through fourteen parishes, as I live; six hours, if it were a minute; horses dead-beat; positively walked, you know; no end of a day!" but must have the fatal "who-whoop" as conclusion both of these, the "new style and the old," could not but be content with the doings of the "demoiselles" from start to finish.
At this moment the hounds were running, to judge from their tongues, parallel to the lake and to the line which he was running the next minute, with a redoubled clamor, they turned directly down to him. I lost sight of him. But half a minute afterward, the sharp crack of his rifle again rang upon the air, followed by a triumphant "Whoop! who-whoop!" and then, I knew, another stag had fallen.
No! he stretches gallantly across the next field game to the last, poor devil! There! "Who-whoop! Dead! dead! who-whoop!" And in another instant Harry had snatched him from the hounds, and holding him aloft displayed him to the rest, as they came up along the road.
"Hilloa, hill-oa ho! whoop! who-whoop!" and with a cheery shout, as we clattered across the wooden bridge, he roused out half the population of the village. "Ya ha ha! ya yah!" yelled a great woolly-headed coal-black negro. "Here 'm massa Archer back again massa ben well, I spect " "Well to be sure I have, Sam," cried Harry. "How's old Poll?
He well knew the fox was sinking, and was determined to be in at the death. Short running ensued a check the fox had lain down, and they had overrun the scent. Now they were on him, and Tom Hills's who-whoop confirmed the whole. "Ah!
The pack then drew Hungerton foxhole blank, drew Carver's spinnies without a whimper; and lastly, drawing the old familiar Billesden Coplow, had a short, quick burst with a brace of cubs, and returning, settled themselves to a fine dog fox that was raced an hour-and-half, hunted slowly for fifty minutes, raced again another hour-and-quarter, sending all the field to their "second horses"; and after a clipping chase through the cream of the grass country, nearly saved his brush in the twilight when the scent was lost in a rushing hailstorm, but had the "little ladies" laid on again like wildfire, and was killed with the "who-whoop!" ringing far and away over Glenn Gorse, after a glorious run thirty miles in and out with pace that tired the best of them.
"'Wiped all your eyes, boys! all of them, by the Etarnal! Who-whoop for our side! and I'll bet horns for all on us, old leather-breeches has killed his'n. "This passed so rapidly in fact it was all nearly simultaneous that the fourth wolf was yet in sight, when the last shot was fired.
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