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extending in the air and the branches at the other 

 end almost submerged. The old tree was at least 

 fifteen feet from the shore. Trotting along the 

 full length of the trunk it jumped from one piece 

 of driftwood to the other, then sprang to the shore. 



THE BAYING OF THE HOUND 



was approaching closer and closer. Nevertheless, 

 the fox calmly stopped to look once more at the in- 

 teresting group of water fowl, and then in a care- 

 less manner it trotted off and disappeared in the 

 woods. Soon the voice of the hound told that it 

 was hot upon the trail and in a few moments it 

 appeared fairly bellowing with excitement. It 

 reached the edge of the water, ran around the loop, 

 back again to the water, where it suddenly stopped 

 its baying and nervously sniffing the ground, went 

 back and forth on a trail around the loop again 

 and again. At length it commenced sniffing up 

 and down the shore, and it must have been almost 

 a quarter of an hour before a sudden and joyful 

 baying announced that the hound had discovered 

 where the fox had jumped to the shore. 



THERE WAS NO ONE WITH THE HOUND, 



it was having a solitary hunt on its own account, 

 and there is little reason for supposing that it ever 

 caught the fox. 



Another time when the writer was seated on the 

 doorstep .of a Pennsylvania farm-house, which 



