THE REV. JOHN RUSSELL. 241 



Trebys, of Goodamoor, had walked into the 

 Assize Court at Bodmin, when Jekyll, catching 

 sight of her, wrote the following lines and 

 handed them up to the judge : — 



"My lord, and gemmen of the jury, 

 I come to prosecute before ye 

 A noted felon, I'll assure ye, 

 Known by the name of Carry Ourry ; 

 Known by a guilty pair of eyes. 

 Known by a thousand felonies. 

 Known to push her crime still further. 

 Guilty of killing, stabbing, murder ; 

 But to be brief and cut it shorter, 

 I'll but indict her for manslaughter." 



The next morning, crossing the Bade at 

 Tarrsteps, and the wild heathery waste lying 

 between it and Exford, Russell threw his hounds 

 into the cover indicated by the farmer : in one 

 minute a lot of cubs were on their legs ; then 

 followed a crash, till, on every side, the whole 

 cover seemed to be on fire. A brace of cubs 

 soon succumbed, and their brushes being handed 

 to the farmer, he carried them home in triumph 

 to his w^ife, declaring that now she would have 

 no further grievance to complain of, " leastways, 

 from they two foxes." 



But Russell had not finished with them yet ; 

 after a short pause, casting his hounds round 

 the outside of the cover, they dropped their 

 sterns and away they went, pelting like a storm 

 of hail after the old dog, twelve miles straight 



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