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Updated: May 9, 2025
They nightly tear, on their phantom horses, over the German and Norwegian forests and moor-lands that echo and re-echo with their hoarse shouts and the mournful baying of their grisly hounds. Many travellers in Russia and Germany journeying through the forests at night have caught the sound of wails, of moans that, starting from the far distance, have gradually come nearer and nearer.
The full moon shone; the wild spiraea sent forth its odor from the road side; steam ascended from the moor-lands; and the white mist floated over the meadows like the daughters of the elfin king. Louise sat silent and embarrassed; trouble weighed down her heart. Otto was also silent. The Kammerjunker drove in first, cracked his whip, and struck up a wild halloo.
Hares are very plentiful in North Germany, and "Kettle-drives" usually resulted in a bag of from thirty to forty of them. To my surprise, in the patches of oak-scrub on the moor-lands, there were usually some woodcock, a bird which I had hitherto associated only with Ireland.
Cool as it still was with the coldness of the vanished twilight, it yet felt warm to his bare feet, fresh from the waters that had crept down through the night from the high moor-lands. He fell fast asleep, and the sheep came and fed about him, as if he had been one of themselves.
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