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Rouse yourself, man, and at least help ME make a fight of it." "No! no!" screamed the terrified man. "Lemme go! Lemme go back to de Massas! Tell 'em I'll come! Tell 'em to call de houns off me, and I'll go quiet! Lemme go!" He struggled violently in his companion's grasp.
He got up a pahty an' tuk de dawgs out an' follered de scen' down ter de crick an' los' it. Fer Ben had tuk a go'd-full er tar 'long wid' 'im, an' w'en he got ter de crick he had 'n'inted his feet wid tar, an' dat th'owed de houns' off'n de scent. Dey sarched de woods an' follered de roads an' kep' watchin' fer a week, but dey couldn' fin' no sign er Ben.
The word seemed to wring an agonized cry from the miserable man. "Bitten! No; but don't you hear 'em coming, sah! God Almighty! don't you hear dat?" "What?" "De dogs! de houns! DE BLOODHOUNS! Dey've set 'em loose on me!" It was true! A faint baying in the distance was now distinctly audible to Courtland.
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