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an ancient, wrinkled, human, far-away look that reminds 

 one of the bust of Homer among the Elgin marbles. He 

 looks like the mountains toward which his heart yearns so 

 much. 



10. i( The hound is a great puzzle to the farm-dog. 

 The latter, attracted by his baying, comes barking and 

 snarling up through the fields, bent on picking a quarrel. 

 He intercepts the hound, snubs and insults and annoys 

 him in every way possible ; but the hound heeds him not. 

 If the dog attacks him, he gets away as best he can and 

 goes on with the trail. The cur bristles and barks and 

 struts about for a while, then goes back to the house, evi- 

 dently thinking the hound a lunatic, which he is for the 

 time being a monomaniac, the slave and victim of one 

 idea. 



11. "I saw the master of a hound one day arrest him 

 in full course, to give one of the hunters time to get to a 

 certain runway. The dog cried and struggled to free 

 himself, and would listen neither to threats nor caresses. 

 Knowing he must be hungry, I offered him my lunch ; 

 but he would not touch it. I put it in his mouth ; but 

 he threw it contemptuously from him. We coaxed and 

 petted and reassured him ; but he was under a spell. He 

 was bereft of all thought or desire but the one passion to 

 pursue that trail." 



12. Of the race of hounds, the sleek, smooth pointer, 

 and the silken-haired setter, derived, it is thought, from 

 the pointer and the English spaniel, are the favorites and 

 pets of sportsmen. They are the hunters of ground-birds. 

 Their scent of the peculiar odor which these feathered 

 fugitives leave behind them is remarkable ; but the way in 

 which, when they come upon the game sitting, and point 

 it, with the fore-foot raised, as if holding it by the in- 

 fluence of some charm, is something wonderful. And 



