Even the reckless bee-hunter, was struck with the wailing wildness of the sounds.

After a short pause the former whistled the dog to his side, and turning to his companions he said with the seriousness, which, in his opinion, the occasion demanded-- "They who think man enjoys all the knowledge of the creatur's of God, will live to be disappointed, if they reach, as I have done, the age of fourscore years.

I will not take upon myself to say what mischief is brewing, nor will I vouch that, even, the hound himself knows so much; but that evil is nigh, and that wisdom invites us to avoid it, I have heard from the mouth of one who never lies.

I did think, the pup had become unused to the footsteps of man, and that your presence made him uneasy; but his nose has been on a long scent the whole evening, and what I mistook as a notice of your coming, has been intended for something more serious.

If the advice of an old man is, then, worth hearkening to, children, you will quickly go different ways to your places of shelter and safety." "If I quit Ellen, at such a moment," exclaimed the youth, "may I--" "You've said enough!" the girl interrupted, by again interposing a band that might, both by its delicacy and colour, have graced a far more elevated station in life; "my time is out; and we must part, at all events--so good night, Paul--father--good night." "Hist!" said the youth, seizing her arm, as she was in the very act of tripping from his side--"Hist! do you hear nothing?
There are buffaloes playing their pranks, at no great distance--That sound beats the earth like a herd of the mad scampering devils!" His two companions listened, as people in their situation would be apt to lend their faculties to discover the meaning of any doubtful noises, especially, when heard after so many and such startling warnings.