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Mr. Kordé, however, soon began to snore inside there so terrifically that the scared dog ran out into the middle of the courtyard and fell a-barking with all his might and main, as if he had been offered pitch for supper instead of meat. As to what followed, it is extremely doubtful whether Mr.
And such another powwow as they made! In a quarter of a minute I was a kind of a hub of a wheel, as you may say spokes made out of dogs circle of fifteen of them packed together around me, with their necks and noses stretched up towards me, a-barking and howling; and more a-coming; you could see them sailing over fences and around corners from everywheres.
The first night she went was the worst, for the minister kept dogs, and the manse was near the church, and even her light footfall was sufficient to set every one of them a-barking. But Lady Home sent for the minister next day, and upon the pretence of one of them being mad, persuaded their owner to hang them all.
"I recollect a boy once, who was told to turn the pigs out of the corn-field. Well, he made a great noise, hallooing and calling the dogs and came back. By-and-by his master said, 'Jim, you rascal! you didn't turn out the pigs. 'Sir, said he, 'I called the dogs, and set them a-barking. "So it was with that big Retrenchment Report, in 1828.
The master of the hounds, in nervy yet placid words, explained that a runaway knew better than to cross open ground by night and set the house-dogs a-barking. It was only on seeing no workers in the fields that I remembered it was Sunday, and feared intensely that the pious fugitives might have shortened their flight.
And though I didn't rightly come to Monkhaven to look for you, I had a feeling it was bore in on me that I'd maybe find some trace of you, and I thought Toby would be the best help. And truly I could believe he'd scented you were not far off the worry he's been all this morning! A-barking and a-sniffing and a-listening like!
For sounds echo up and down the valley as clearly as across the water of a lake; and sometimes a quiet evening would grow suddenly horrid with distracted noises of family quarrel in some distant cottage, when women shrilled and clamoured and men cursed, and all the dogs in the parish fell a-barking furiously. Even in bed one could not be secure.
And such another powwow as they made! In a quarter of a minute I was a kind of a hub of a wheel, as you may say spokes made out of dogs circle of fifteen of them packed together around me, with their necks and noses stretched up towards me, a-barking and howling; and more a-coming; you could see them sailing over fences and around corners from everywheres.
And from time to time a despairing howl uttered by the tortured monster, a howl which set the terrified dog a-barking, and made him scratch up the ground beneath the gate in order to make his escape. The cantor began to shiver as with ague. "The horrible beast won't confess," he heard a couple of furious voices say quite close to him.
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