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Updated: May 8, 2025
Ah! you must think of the circumstances in which I was placed you must think, too, of the hours I spent with the snake-charmer of the tales he told me in that dark tree-cave the stories of runaways, of sleuth-dogs, of man-hunters, and "nigger-hunts," practices long thought to be confined to Cuba, but which I found as rife upon the soil of Louisiana, you must think of all these, and then you will understand why I trembled at the distant baying of a hound.
Hark to it! and these hounds are deep-voiced sleuth-dogs! But come now, there may yet be time." He turned, and caught up axe and shield from off the wall, and drew her toward a window that looked to the north, and peered out of it warily; but turned back straightway, and said: "Nay, it is too late that way, they are all round about the house.
She was a native, and knew the customs of the land: she knew that hounds were used to hunt deer and foxes and wild-cats of the woods; but she knew also that on many plantations there were some kept for a far different purpose sleuth-dogs, trained to the hunting of men!
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