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Updated: June 15, 2025
"You disgraced your family by turnin' apostate, and we know what for. Little Solomon, the greatest rogue unhanged, gave you the only grace you got or ever will get." "Why, you poor turncoat, isn't the whole country laughin' at you, and none more than your own friends. The great fightin' Orangeman and blood-hound turned voteen! oh, are we alive afther that!"
Besides, there was neither "Constitution" nor "compact," to send back Abraham's fugitives, nor a truckling police to pounce upon them, nor gentleman-kidnappers, suing for his patronage, volunteering to howl on their track, boasting their blood-hound scent, and pledging their "honor" to hunt down and "deliver up," provided they had a description of the "flesh-marks," and were suitably stimulated by pieces of silver.
They all heard it; but he was the only one who knew what it was. "What ish dat, ony how?" coolly inquired the captain. Before Frank could reply, the fearful sound was repeated, faint and far off, but still nearer than before. "Merciful heavens!" ejaculated the major, who now understood their situation; "is it possible you don't know what that sound is? It is the cry of a blood-hound!"
The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited until the keeper entered, leading his bandog, a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name. But it befell this.
"Oh, in the woods a black named Hugo. He tracks me like a blood-hound, and never loses sight of me when I am out. He may not hear what we are saying, but he will tell his master that I have spoken with you." "Are there spies in the Hall?" "Oh yes; his housekeeper watches me always." "Is there no place where we can talk without being seen or heard?
The Visiter sketched the lawyer as his client's dog, Towser; a dog of the blood-hound breed, with a brand new brass collar, running with his nose to the ground, while his owner clapped his hands and shouted: "Seek him, seek him Towser!" This caught the fancy of the street boys, who called him, "Towser, where's your collar?" "Seek him, Towser."
"He is at present tame, quiet, and domesticated, for lack of opportunity to exercise his inborn propensities; but let the trumpet of war sound let the young blood-hound snuff blood, he will be as ferocious as the wildest of his Border ancestors that ever fired a helpless peasant's abode.
To ensure good behavior, the slaveholder relies on the whip; to induce proper humility, he relies on the whip; to rebuke what he is pleased to term insolence, he relies on the whip; to supply the place of wages as an incentive to toil, he relies on the whip; to bind down the spirit of the slave, to imbrute and destroy his manhood, he relies on the whip, the chain, the gag, the thumb-screw, the pillory, the bowie knife the pistol, and the blood-hound.
Percivall, "I was consulted concerning a blood-hound of great size and beauty, and of the cost of L50, that had been a cripple in one of his hind limbs for some considerable time past, owing, it was said or thought, to having received some injury.
Three other animals, if not perfectly well-bred, were closely allied to the Cuban blood-hound, too frequently employed in hunting runaway slaves, although equally useful for driving game out of thick coverts or protecting the camp when committed to their charge.
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