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more settled do^vii to hunt with a will ; before them was a hroad 

 and deep river, and across it they went straight for another 

 small covert, where we were in fear of changing again ; but no, 

 she was driven out of her country, and knew it not ; or, if she 

 did, was, perhaps, too tired and hard run to enter, and running 

 up the outside, reaches the hiil beyond where as Shakespeare 



has it, — 



By this poor Watt, far off upon a hill, 

 Stands on his hinder legs with listening ear, 

 To hearken if his foes pursue him still ; 

 Anon ! their loud alarums he doth hear. 

 And now his grief may be compared well 

 To one sore sick that hears the passing belL 



Verily, our quarry had no difficulty in hearing the loud alarums 

 of her foes, and they must, indeed, have sounded ominous as 

 the passing bell to a sick man, for they were rung out now wdth 

 a depth of tone and persistence in the music that portended a 

 s^Deedy death. 



"In vain, having reached the length of her strength and 

 tether, she now turns short and doubles back ; like the Squire's 

 pack in the celebrated ' Quarterly Eeview ' run, they turn shorter 

 than she does. In vain she runs the road, the deep -toned hounds 

 seem glued to her footsteps ; nor does a cur dog, having chased 

 her, check them for one single moment — on they go, ringing 

 her knell, and, as Dick Burton said, 'preaching her funeral 

 sermon' at the same time. One other chance to shake them off 

 remains, and she embraces it ; there runs the railway with its 

 arid gravel line, and beyond it roUs the sea, girt with cold and 

 pebbly shingle. If they can hunt her there, the last chance for 

 life is gone. Over the railroad she goes, and runs the beach 

 beyond, though she dares not trust herself on the waste of 

 waters, as some hares have been known to do when hard pressed 

 in this country. 



" Do these manoeuvres shake off her pursuers or gain her 

 any respite ? Not one moment. Alike to them seems verdant 



