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strictly to himself much of what he read 

 there. The horns, the whoops, the yelling 

 set his blood on fire. When he went to a 

 reunion of the veterans and heard the " rebel 

 yell " from the lips of the very men who 

 made it famous, he said to Patsy : " I know 

 how that started. When our men went out 

 to fight, they just had to holler like they had 

 hollered when they went hunting." Bigger 

 and more distinguished listeners have noted 

 the same fact — for fact it is — but Joe and 

 Patsy did not know it. That wild keen cry- 

 ing, utterly defiant of vowels and consonants, 

 stirred them as speech or martial music could 

 never do. When the yelling rose and fell, 

 and then leaped suddenly as high as the sky, 

 at sight of a riderless horse, a battle standard 

 tattered until it was little more than a stafiv, 

 tears rained down Patsy's white cheeks, and 

 though Joe clinched his hands and breathed 

 very hard, all the world grew blurred and 

 dim for at least a minute. 



The gorgeous tallyho's name is another of 

 the things due to fox-hunting. " Tallyho ! " is 

 the cry when Reynard is sighted, as " Stole 

 away ! " means that he has gone off unseen. 

 Tallyho is a corruption or contraction of the 

 Norman-French taillis hors — " out of the 

 thicket." After the cry came horn-blowing; 

 Thus, when coaches were set up upon the 



