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No such Language as Rommany. Hedgehogs. The Witch Element in Gipsy Life. Jackdaws and Dogs. Their Uses. Lurchers and Poachers. A Gipsy Camp. The Ancient Henry. I am mistaken for a Magistrate or Policeman. Gipsies of Three Grades. The Slangs. Jim and the Twigs. Beer rained from Heaven. Fortune-telling. A golden Opportunity to live at my Ease. Petulamengro. I hear of a New York Friend.
The friends were great poachers, and they carried on their operations like a pair of vicious and well-trained lurchers. Roughit had a small lightly built dog, bred between a collie and greyhound; Lance had a big Bedlington terrier; and these two dogs were certain to be the death of any hare they made up their minds to catch.
The pack now in the kennel is as near perfection as can be attained for elk-hunting, comprising ten couple, most of whom are nearly thoroughbred fox-hounds, with a few couple of immense seizers, a cross between bloodhound and greyhound, and a couple of large wire-haired lurchers, like the Scotch deer-hound.
"Hurrah!" shouted he, waving his hat triumphantly over his head. "Saved!" "Ay, ay, it's all bob, my covey! You're safe enough, that's certain!" responded the Minters, baying, yelping, leaping, and howling around him like a pack of hounds when the huntsman is beating cover; "but, where are the lurchers?" "Who?" asked Wood. "The traps!" responded a bystander.
H. Faull, of Helstone, in Cornwall, lost no fewer than fifteen fine sheep, and some of them store sheep, killed by lurchers in January, 1824. We now proceed to the different species of dog belonging to the second division of Cuvier, which are classed under the name of Hound; and, first we take The origin of this diminutive hound is somewhat obscure.
After riding beside me for some time in silence, he remarked, "And isn't it Father Rush will be proud when he sees your honor's a captain; to think of the little boy that he used to take before him on the ould gray mare for a ride down the avenue, to think of him being a real captain, six feet two without his boots, and galloping over the French as if they were lurchers!
But the dogs called lurchers nowadays are mostly of degenerate and impure breed; still, even these are capable of a good deal. There is a way of fishing with rod and line, but without a bait. The rod should be in one piece, or else a stout one the line also very strong and short, the hook of large size.
In short, if it had been your fortune to accompany the squire and his friend round the premises if you had walked through the stables and counted the horses if you had viewed the kennels and examined the various hounds the great Lancashire dogs, tall, shaggy, and heavy, a race now extinct; the Worcestershire hounds, then also in much repute; the greyhounds, the harriers, the beagles, the lurchers, and, lastly, the verminers, or, as we should call them, the terriers, if you had seen all these, you would not have wondered that money was scarce with him.
And was there no poetry, true idyllic poetry, as of Longfellow's 'Evangeline' itself in that trip round the old farm next morning; when Zeal-for-Truth, after looking over every heifer, and peeping into every sty, would needs canter down by his father's side to the horse-fen, with his arm in a sling; while the partridges whirred up before them, and the lurchers flashed like gray snakes after the hare, and the colts came whinnying round, with staring eyes and streaming manes; and the two chatted on in the same sober businesslike English tone, alternately of 'The Lord's great dealings' by General Cromwell, the pride of all honest fen-men, and the price of troop-horses at the next Horncastle fair?
Another man stepped out. The hands of one of the lurchers flew to the newcomer's mouth. The hands of the other lurcher flew to the newcomer's pockets. At that moment I advanced. The lurchers vanished noiselessly and instantaneously. Their victim held out his hand. "Come in, won't you?" he said, smiling sleepily at me. I followed him in, murmuring something about "caught in the act."
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