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Call in the dogs, I say, you Enoch!
Abner! Gabriel! has wonder made ye deaf?"
One of the young men complied; and having succeeded in detaching the
hounds from the place, around which, until then, they had not ceased
to hover, he led them down to the margin of the thicket.
"Put them in, boy; put them in," continued the woman; "and you,
Ishmael and Abiram, if any thing wicked or hurtful comes forth, show
them the use of your rifles, like frontier-men. If ye ar' wanting in
spirit, before the eyes of my children will I put ye both to shame!"
The youths who, until now, had detained the hounds, let slip the
thongs of skin, by which they had been held, and urged them to the
attack by their voices. But, it would seem, that the elder dog was
restrained by some extraordinary sensation, or that he was much too
experienced to attempt the rash adventure. After proceeding a few
yards to the very verge of the brake, he made a sudden pause, and
stood trembling in all his aged limbs, apparently as unable to recede
as to advance.


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