PEPACTON 



When the cock-robin makes love he is the same 

 considerate, deferential, but insinuating gallant. 

 The warble he makes use of on that occasion is the 

 same, so far as my ear can tell, as the one he pipes 

 when facing his rival. 



FOX AND HOUND 



I stood on a high hill or ridge one autumn day 

 and saw a hound run a fox through the fields far 

 beneath me. What odors that fox must have shaken 

 out of himself, I thought, to be traced thus easily, 

 and how great their specific gravity not to have 

 been blown away like smoke bj the breeze! The 

 fox ran a long distance down the hill, keeping 

 within a few feet of a stone wall ; then turned a 

 right angle and led off for the mountain, across a 

 plowed field and a succession of pasture lands. In 

 about fifteen minutes the hound came in full blast 

 with her nose in the air, and never once did she 

 put it to the ground while in my sight. When 

 she came to the stone wall, she took the other side 

 from that taken by the fox, and kept about the 

 same distance from it, being thus separated several 

 yards from his track, with the fence -between her 

 and it. At the point where the fox turned sharply 

 to the left, the hound overshot a few yards, then 

 wheeled, and, feeling the air a moment with her 

 nose, took up the scent again and was off on his 

 trail as unerringly as Fate. It seemed as if the fox 

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