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Updated: May 14, 2025
Most of the hounds attached themselves to a straight-necked youngster of education who scuttled out of the woods into the open fields below. 'Hold on! some one shouted. 'Turn 'em, Midmore. That's your brute Sidney's land. It's all wire. 'Oh, Connie, stop! Mrs. Sperrit shrieked as her daughter charged at a boundary-hedge. 'Wire be damned! I had it all out a fortnight ago.
"A gourd, my dear, is a vegetable, something like a squash, only much thicker and harder; when hollowed out, it is as hard as if it were made of wood, and not so easy to break. It is shaped something like a short, straight-necked winter squash; a calabash is a large kind of gourd.
In the first place, unless he has distinct proof to the contrary, he invariably gives his fox credit for being a straight-necked one. He keeps moving on at a steady pace in the direction in which his instinct and knowledge lead him, even though there may be no scent, either on the ground or in the air, to guide the hounds.
This I know, because I saw him walking much, and specially in the heart of the night. As Spurstow was arranging the sheet, a big straight-necked hunting-spur tumbled on the ground. The doctor groaned. The personal servant peeped at the body. 'What do you think, Chuma? said Spurstow, catching the look on the dark face.
Such are thoroughbreds: they rise with the occasion; snobs descend as the situation rises. See that straight-necked, small-nosed mare stepping delicately on the turnpike: why, it is Languor in person, picking its way among eggs. Now the hounds cry and the horn rings.
When caught in the act in broad daylight, the fox had to be hunted round and round the enclosure before he would leave, finally climbing up the wire fencing like a cat, instead of departing by the open door. It is very rare that a mischievous fox, given to the destruction of poultry, is also a straight-necked one.
Much of the arable land has gone back to grass, so that it is quite a fair scenting country; and the foxes are stronger and more straight-necked than in more civilised parts. One of the best days the writer ever had in his life was with these hounds.
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