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party are exulting in their success, cutting off poor reynard'a 

 brush, praising the hounds, adding some two feet to a wall theii 

 horses had cleared, laughing at those who had got tumbles, and 

 recounting many a hair-breadth escape, I was entertained by 

 listening to an Arab peasant,-who, with animate.d gestures, wai 

 narrating to a group of his countrymen all he had seen of this 

 noble hunt. "There went the fox,'' said he, pointing with a 

 crooked stick to a clump of date trees ; " there he went at a great 

 rate ; I hallooed, and hallooed, but nobody heard me, and I thought 

 he must get away ; but when he was quite out of sight, up came 

 a large spotted dog, and then another and another ; they all had 

 their noses on the ground, and gave tongue, whow, whow, whow, 

 so loud that I was frightened : away went these devils, who 

 soon found the poor animal ; after them galloped the Faringees*, 

 shouting and trying to make a noise louder than the dogs : no 

 wonder they killed the fox among them ; but it is certainly fine 

 sport. Our Shaikh has no dogs like thesr." This last remark 



Faringee, wftich is a corruption of Frank, is the name given to an Ewopean 

 w all Asia. 



