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"We never could hide our traps from Betty," pursued Dan, in delight. "She was a regular fox for scenting them out I never saw such a nose for traps as hers, and she always set the things loose and smashed the doors." "We hid 'em one time way way in de thicket by de ice pond," returned Big Abel, "but she spied 'em out. Yes, Lawd, she spied 'em out fo' ouah backs wuz turnt."
"Er goin' to Clovelly after wool this week, Jake?" "I kin go to-morrow," said Jake, scenting an affair. "Er goin' to Clovelly after wool this week, Jake?" Jake reflected. He saw it was expedient that this errand should not smell of haste. "I was goin' to see Cutter on Friday," he answered. "Er if you should happen to meet Heth " "Yes," interrupted Jake.
But they were nearly always caught at the barricades, Sergeant Bibot especially at the West Gate had a wonderful nose for scenting an aristo in the most perfect disguise. Then, of course, the fun began.
He was fresh, just at present, from a good scenting season in Leicestershire, followed by a sojourn on the Tweed, in which classical river he had improved many shining hours, wading waist-deep under a twenty-foot rod, any number of yards of line, and a fly of various hues, as gaudy, and but little smaller than a cock pheasant.
There was no object between the eye and the water; no jutting ledge, not even a tree, to break the fall nothing but the spiky boulders below, and the foaming torrent that washed them. It was some minutes before our unnatural enemies made their appearance, but every howl sounded nearer and nearer. Our trail was warm, and we knew they were scenting it on a run.
The first hut of the village sprang out of the fog before us like some dark monster ... then the second, our hut, emerged and my setter dog began barking, probably scenting me. I knocked at the window. "Semyon!" I shouted to Tyeglev's servant, "hey, Semyon! Make haste and open the gate for us." The gate creaked and opened; Semyon crossed the threshold.
With a frown he resumed his smoking. "Where's Delight?" Captain Phineas asked, scenting his friend's mood and veering tactfully to a less irritating topic. "That's so! Where is the child?" rejoined Captain Jonas. "She was round here fussin' with them roses a minute ago." "That ain't her over toward the pine grove, is it?" queried Captain Benjamin.
The reporter then reappeared. His eyes were sparkling and his nostrils quivered. He remained on his hands and knees. He could not be better likened than to an admirable sporting dog on the scent of some unusual game. And, indeed, he was scenting the steps of a man, the man whom he has sworn to report to his master, the manager of the "Epoque."
With a broom in one hand, and feather dusting-brush in the other, she ran down the front steps, her white cap strings flying like distress signals, bent down to the ground as a blood-hound might in scenting a trail, then dashed back into the quiet old house, and uttered a wolfish cry: "Robbers! Burglars! Thieves!"
When Athelvok jumped into the water the bull must have thrown his head up, startled at the splash, then he would have listened and have sniffed the air, and neither hearing nor scenting any danger he must have remained rigid for some moments, for it was in that attitude that Athelvok found him as he emerged breathless at his feet.
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