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Updated: June 8, 2025
Meantime it was a fine autumn still, and with bright colours on the woods, where deer, hare, rabbit, or partridge tempted the hounds, not to say their mistress, but she kept them well in leash, and her falcon with hood and jesses, she being too well nurtured not to be well aware of the strict laws of the chase, except when some good-natured monk gave her leave and accompanied her generally Augustinians, who were more of country squires than ecclesiastics.
I took him into a quiet café and ordered breakfast. His face and voice recalled to me all the Daker story; and I felt that I was touching another link in it. He avoided my eye. He grasped the bottle greedily, and took a deep draught. The wine warmed him, and loosed "the jesses of his tongue." He had a long tale to tell about himself!
In the midst was a dead bustard, also an Englishman sitting up, with his head bleeding; Jean was on foot, with her dagger-knife in one hand, and holding fast to her breast her beloved hawk, whose jesses were, however, grasped by one of the foresters.
I did not tell them." Sepp went on again with long strides. The four little black hoofs of the chamois stuck pitifully up out of the bag on his broad back. When he was well out of hearing he growled aloud: "Hab' 's schon g' wusst! Jesses, Marie and Josef! was is denn does!"
So la! wouldst mount? wouldst fly? the jesses are round thy clutches, fool thou canst neither stir nor soar but by my will Beware thou come to reclaim, wench, else I will wring thy head off one of these days Well, have it then, and well fare thou with it. So ho, Jenkin!"
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