ed by  out on to alden whe ice was covered

    urn to the

    same s  the

    scent.  Sometimes a pack ing by themselves would pass my door,

    and circle round my  regarding me,

    as if afflicted by a species of madness, so t nothing could

    divert t.  til they fall upon

    t trail of a fox, for a wise hing

    else for to my  from Lexington to

    inquire after  made a large track, and had been

    ing for a   the wiser

    for all I told ime I attempted to answer his

    questions errupted me by asking, quot; do you do ;  he

    a dog, but found a man.

    One old er o bathe

    in alden once every year , and at such

    times looked in upon me, told me t many years ago ook his gun

    one afternoon and  out for a cruise in alden ood; and as he

    he cry of hounds approaching, and

    ere long a fox leaped to the road, and as quick as

    t leaped t of t bullet

    touched him.  Some way behind came an old hound and her

    t, ing on t, and

    disappeared again in te in ternoon, as he was

    resting in the voice of

    tohe fox; and on

    the woods ring sounding

    nearer and nearer, nohe Baker Farm.

    For a long time ood still and listened to t

    to a ers ear, whe

    solemn aisles h an easy coursing pace, whose sound was concealed

    by a sympatic rustle of t and still, keeping the

    round, leaving his pursuers far behind; and, leaping upon a rock

    amid