here seemed to be a ring of exultation in their wild cry, as though they knew that their quarry was almost run to earth.
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‘Never heed him,’ I said hurriedly. ‘Do you rein your steed behind that rock, and I behind this. They will serve to break the force of the attack. Dismount not, but strike down, and strike hard.’
On either side in the shadow of the rock we waited in silence for our terrible pursuers. Looking back at it, my dear children, I cannot but think that it was a great trial on such young soldiers as Reuben and myself to be put, on the first occasion of drawing our swords, into such a position. For I have found, and others Pablo Zabaleta Drakter have confirmed my opinion, that of all dangers that a man is called upon to face, that arising from savage and determined animals is the most unnerving. For with men there is ever the chance that some trait of weakness or of want of courage may give you an advantage over them, but with fierce beasts there is no such hope. We knew that the creatures to whom we were opposed could never be turned from our throats while there was breath in their bodies. One feels in one’s heart, too, that the combat is an unequal one, for your Boston Bruins Pelipaidat life is precious at least to your friends, while their lives, what are they? All Erik Durm Drakter this and a great deal more passed swiftly through our minds as we sat with drawn swords, soothing our trembling Chile horses as best we might, and waiting for the coming of the hounds.
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