Cleopatra 



gotten the incident, but it seems Cleopatra hadn't, 

 and once when the kicker passed in front of us, she 

 laid her ears back, stretched out her neck and 

 fastened her teeth in the other's nose. Aiter that 

 I had a different feeling toward Cleopatra. There 

 was something so finished about the way she 

 avenged me that I felt I could better trust myself 

 in her hands, if only she did not bolt those first 

 few fields. 



The hounds were whimpering in the woods now, 

 and occasionally some old veteran would give a 

 few staccato notes and arouse the rest of the pack 

 for a short interval; but there did not seem to be 

 any likelihood of their going away at once. 



I began to examine the country around me. 

 Suddenly I realized that we had come in through 

 a gate that had been shut behind us, into a field 

 entirely surrounded by fences. At first blush 

 there is nothing startling about that; fields often 

 have fences around them but there are fences 

 and fences, and you can imagine what this 

 one was like when I tell you that I decided 

 on the closed gate as the least reckless means of 

 egress. Miss Smithson's gray was a quiet, 

 dignified animal with a docked tail and a pompous 

 manner of putting down its front feet, and as I 

 soon discovered that Cleopatra appeared to be on 

 good terms with it, since they rubbed the tops of 

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