UNCLE JACK'S PACK OF HOUNDS. 



Did you ever hear a pack of hounds? Such a noise as they 

 make! They can beat anything for noise, except boys just let 

 loose from school. 



Uncle Jack More has 

 five or six fine fox- 

 hounds. When he goes 

 out to hunt he takes his 

 hounds. They start on 

 a run, with their noses to 

 the ground. When one 

 of them scents the track 

 of a deer, a fox, or any 

 other animal, he raises a 

 cry, and then the whole 

 pack start on the trail, 

 making the woods ring 

 with their cries. 



The hounds are very 

 gentle, and are great pets 

 with all the children who 

 live near. 



Uncle Jack has a friend 

 living eight miles distant. 

 He often makes him a 

 visit with his hounds, and one day when he was coming home he 

 had a funny time. I must tell you the story. 



Right on his road home stands our new white school-house, and 

 school had just begun for the summer. We had a pretty, young 

 teacher, who was a stranger to all of us, and had never heard of 

 hounds. Uncle Jack was riding with a neighbor. As they came 

 near the school-house he called the hoimds up into the' wagon. 



" If they strike the track of the children they will go straight to 

 school," he said. 



They rode along, but did not see that one of the dogs had 

 jumped down, and was running ■ under the wagon. 



