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He lay flat on his face, in which posture he could not be detected by any one a dozen yards away, and skillfully shifted his position until the back of Lone Bear was toward him. Peering around the trunk, he kept his eyes on the Pawnee until the intervening trees and vegetation shut him from sight. Then Deerfoot rose to his feet, and took his trail like a bloodhound.
Yet he knew that he had not missed them, for he had taken his lunch on the balcony of an inn commanding a view of the river, which he had kept under survey from the time he had reached Hampton earlier in the day. Steadily, with the persistence of a bloodhound tracking its prey, he walked on and on, until he came to a village, or rather a collection of homesteads.
'It is enchanted, and no one that has tried to enter it has ever come back. Her husband said nothing, and began to talk of something else; but the next morning he ordered his horse, took his spear, called his bloodhound, and set off for the castle.
Silk Culture. The Island once covered by Forests. No Poisonous Reptiles. The Cuban Bloodhound. Hotbed of African Slavery. Spain's Disregard of Solemn Treaties. The Coolie System of Slavery. Ah-Lee draws a Prize. Native African Races. Negroes buying their Freedom. Laws favoring the Slaves. Example of St. Domingo. General Emancipation.
"It would be worse than looking for a pin in a haystack, for we wouldn't know what direction he had taken." "I wish I had a bloodhound with which to trail him. He ought to be run down, Tom." "Well, let us notify some of the people living near and see what can be done." They ran on to the spot where they supposed Baxter had left the highway.
I had a very savage and powerful dog many years ago which was a cross of Manilla bloodhound with some big bitch at the Cape of Good Hope. This animal weighed upwards of 130 lbs., and became a well-known character in the pack, which I kept for seven years in Ceylon. Although I never actually witnessed a duel between this dog and a leopard, such an event frequently took place.
As the Bloodhound and Teaser with the boats approached the stockades, they were received with a hot fire from the guns, jingalls, and muskets of the negroes, which was returned with round-shot and rockets from the steamers and boats.
"There are scars now, then," muttered Tantaine, as he moved away from the house, "and that Master Catenac never said a word about them!" Two hours after Andre had left the Avenue de Matignon, one of Mascarin's most trusty emissaries was at his heels, who could watch his actions with the tenacity of a bloodhound.
When within an hour's ride of the prison his living grave he raised his ironed hands, and twisting from a blue flannel shirt which he wore a large pearl button, said to the officer in charge: "Will you please take this button back and give it, with my compliments, to that human bloodhound, and say to him that I'm sorry that I didn't anticipate meeting him?
He did not notice the discomfort of his position, his eyes shone in excitement and a deep flush glowed in his cheeks. Also, he began to whistle softly. Joseph Muller, the bloodhound of the Austrian police, had found a clue, a clue that soon would bring him to the trail he was seeking. He did not know yet what he could do with his clue.
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