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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Long Hillside + A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia + 1908 + +Author: Thomas Nelson Page + +Release Date: November 16, 2007 [EBook #23514] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONG HILLSIDE *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +THE LONG HILLSIDE + +A CHRISTMAS HARE-HUNT IN OLD VIRGINIA + +By Thomas Nelson Page + +Charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1908 + +Copyright, 1891, 1904, 1906 + + + + +I + +There do not seem to be as many hares now as there used to be when I was +a boy. Then the "old fields" and branch-bottoms used to be full of them. +They were peculiarly our game; I mean we used to consider that they +belonged to us boys. They were rather scorned by the "gentlemen," by +which was meant the grown-up gentlemen, who shot partridges over the +pointers, and only picked up a hare when she got in their way. And the +negroes used to catch them in traps or "gums," which were traps made of +hollow gum-tree logs. But we boys were the hare-hunters. They were our +property from our childhood; just as much, we considered, as "Bruno" and +"Don," the beautiful "crack" pointers, with their brown eyes and satiny +ears and coats, were "the gentlemen's." + +The negroes used to set traps all the Fall and Winter, and we, with the +natural tendency of boys to imitate whatever is wild and primitive, used +to set traps also. To tell the truth, however, the hares appeared to +have a way of going into the negroes' traps, rather than into ours, and +the former caught many to our one. + +Even now, after many years, I can remember the delight of the frosty +mornings; the joy with which we used to peep through the little panes +of the dormer-windows at the white frost over the fields, which promised +stronger chances of game being caught; the eagerness with which, +oblivious of the cold, we sped through the garden, across the field, +along the ditch banks, and up by the woods, making the round of our +traps; the expectancy with which we peeped over the whitened weeds and +through the bushes, to catch a glimpse of the gums in some "parf" or +at some clearly marked "gap"; our disappointment when we found the door +standing open and the trigger set just as we had left it the mormng +before; our keen delight when the door was down; the dash for the trap; +the scuffle to decide which should look in first; the peep at the brown +ball screwed up back at the far end; the delicate operation, of getting +the hare out of the trap; and the triumphant return home, holding up our +spoil to be seen from afar. We were happier than we knew. + +So far to show how we came to regard hares as our natural game, and how, +though to be bird-hunters we had to grow up, we were hare-hunters as +boys. The rush, the cheers, the yells, the excitement were a part of the +sport, to us boys the best part. + +Of course, to hunt hares we had to have dogs--at least boys must +have--the noise, the dash, the chase are half the battle. + +And such dogs as ours were! + +It was not allowable to take bird-dogs after hares. I say it was not +allowable; I do not say it was not done, for sometimes, of course, +the pointers _would_ come, and we could not make them go back. But +the hare-dogs were the puppies and curs, terriers, watch-dogs, and the +nondescript crew which belonged to the negroes, and to the plantation +generally. + +What a pack they were! Thin, undersized black-and-tans, or spotted +beasts of doubtful breed, called "houn's" by courtesy; long legged, +sleepy watch-dogs from the "quarters," brindled or "yaller" mongrels, +which even courtesy could not term other than "kyur dogs"; sharp-voiced +"fises," busier than bees, hunting like fury, as if they expected to +find rats in every tuft of grass; and, when the hares got up, bouncing +and bobbing along, not much bigger than the "molly cottontails" they +were after, getting in everyone's way and receiving sticks and stones +in profusion, but with their spirits unbroken. And all these were in one +incongruous pack, growling, running, barking, ready to steal, fight, or +hunt, whichever it happened to be. + +We used to have hunts on Saturdays, just we boys, with perhaps a black +boy or two of our particular cronies; but the great hunt was "in the +holidays"--that is, about Christmas. Then all the young darkies about +the place were free and ready for sport. + +This Christmas hunt was an event. + + + + +II + +It was the year 186--, and, Christmas-day falling on a Sunday, Saturday +was given as the first day of the holidays. It had been a fine Fall; +the cover was good, and old hares were plentiful. It had been determined +some time before Christmas that we would have a big hare-hunt on that +day, and the "boys"--that is, the young darkies--came to the house from +the quarters, prepared for the sport, and by the time breakfast was over +they were waiting for us around the kitchen door. + +Breakfast was always late about Christmas time; perhaps, the spareribs +and sausages and the jelly dripping through a blanket hung over the legs +of an upturned table accounted for it; and on, this Christmas eve it was +ten by the tall clock in the corner of the dining-room before we were +through. + +When we came out, the merry darkies were waiting for us, grinning and +showing their shining teeth, laughing and shouting and calling the +dogs. They were not allowed to have guns; but our guns, long old +single-barrels handed down for at least two generations, had been +carried out and cleaned, and they were handing them around, inspecting +and aiming them with as much pride as if they had been brand-new. There +was only one exception to this rule: Uncle "Limpy-Jack," so called +because he had one leg shorter than the other, was allowed to have a +gun. He was a sort of professional hunter about the place. No lord +was ever prouder of a special privilege handed down in his family for +generations. + +The other boys were armed with stout sticks and made much noise. Uncle +Limpy-Jack was in this respect also the only exception; he was grave +as became a "man" who was a hunter by business, and "warn't arter no +foolishness." He allowed no one to touch his gun, which thus possessed +a special value. He carried his powder in a gourd and his shot in an old +rag. + +The pack of dogs I have described, fully recruited, were hanging around, +growling and snarling, sneaking into the kitchen and being kicked out by +Aunt Betty and her corps of varicolored assistants, largely augmented +at the approach of Christmas with its cheer. The yelping of the mongrel +pack, the shouts and whoops of the boys, and the laughter of the maids +or men about the kitchen and back-yard, all in their best clothes and +in high spirits, were exhilarating, and with many whoops and much +"hollering," we climbed the yard fence, and, disdaining a road, of +course, set out down the hill across the field, taking long strides, +each one bragging loudly of what he would do. + +Let me see: there were John and Andrew and Black Peter, and Bow-legged +Saul, and Milker-Tim, and Billy, and Uncle Limpy-Jack, and others now +forgotten, and the three white boys. And the dogs, "Ole Rattler," and +"Ole Nim-rod," who had always been old by their names, and were regarded +with reverence akin to fetich-worship because they were popularly +supposed to be able to trail a hare. It was a de-lusion, I am now +satisfied; for I cannot recall that they ever trailed one certainly +three feet. Then there were the "guard dawgs": "Hector," brindled, +bob-tailed, and ugly, and "Jerry," yellow, long-tailed, and mean; then +there was "Jack," fat, stumpy, and ill-natured; there were the two +pointers, Bruno and Don, the beauties and pride of the family, with a +pedigree like a prince's, who, like us, were taking a holiday hunt, but, +unlike us, without permission; "Rock," Uncle Limpy-Jack's "hyah dawg," +and then the two terriers "Snip" and "Snap." We beat the banks of the +spring ditch for form's sake, though there was small chance of a hare +there, because it was pasture and the banks were kept clean. Then we +made for the old field beyond, the dogs spreading out and nosing around +lazily, each on his own hook. Whether because of the noise we made +and their seeking safety in flight, or because they were off "taking +holiday"{1} as the negroes claimed, no hares were found, and after a +half-hour our ardor was a little dampened. But we soon set to work +in earnest and began to beat a little bottom lying between two hills, +through which ran a ditch, thickly grown up with bushes and briers. The +dead swamp-grass was very heavy in the narrow little bottom along the +sides, and was matted in tufts. The dogs were scattered, and prowling +around singly or in couples; and only one of the pointers and Snip +were really on the ditch. Snip showed signs of great industry, and went +bobbing backward and forward through a patch of heavy matted grass. In +any other dog this might have excited suspicion, even hope. There are, +however, some dogs that are natural liars. Snip was one of them. Snip's +failing was so well known that no attention was paid to him. He +gave, indeed, a short bark, and bounced up two or three times like a +trap-ball, looking both ways at once; but this action only called down +upon him universal derision. + + 1 The hares, according to the negroes, used to take holidays + and would not go into traps in this season; so the only way + to get them was by hunting them. + +Just then, however, a small boy pointed over to the top of the hill +calling, "Look-a yander," and shouts arose, "Dyah she go!" "Dyah she +go!" "Dyah she go!" + +Sure enough, there, just turning the hill, went a "molly cotton," +bouncing. In a second we were all in full chase and cry, shouting to +each other, "whooping" on the dogs, and running with all our might. We +were so carried away by the excitement that not one of us even thought +of the fact that she would come stealing back. + +No negro can resist the inclination to shout "Dyah she go!" and to run +after a hare when one gets up; it is involuntary and irresistible. Even +Uncle Limpy-Jack came bobbing along for a while, shouting, "Dyah she +go!" at the top of his voice; but being soon distanced he called his +dog, Rock, and went back to beat the ditch bank again. + +The enthusiasm of the chase carried us all into the piece of pine beyond +the fence, where the pines were much too thick to see anything and where +only an occasional glimpse of a dog running backward and forward, or an +instinctive "oun-oun!" from the hounds, rewarded us. But "molly is berry +sly," and while the dogs were chasing each other around the pines, +she was tripping back down through the field to the place where we had +started her. + +We were recalled by hearing an unexpected "bang" from the field behind +us, and dashing out of the woods we found Uncle Limpy-Jack holding up a +hare, and with a face whose gravity might have done for that of Fate. +He was instantly surrounded by the entire throng, whom he regarded with +superb disdain and spoke of as "you chillern." + +"G' on, you chillern, whar you is gwine, and meek you' noise somewhar +else, an' keep out o' my way. I want to git some hyahs!" + +He betrayed his pleasure only once, when, as he measured out the shot +from an old rag into his seamed palm, he said with a nod of his head: +"Y' all kin _run_ ole hyahs; de ole man' _shoots_ 'em." And as we +started off we heard him muttering: + + "Ole Molly Hyah, + What yo' doin' dyah? + Settin' in de cornder + Smokin' a cigah." + +We went back to the branch and began again to beat the bushes, Uncle +Limpy-Jack taking unquestioned the foremost place, which had heretofore +been held by us. + +Suddenly there was a movement, a sort of scamper, a rash, as something +slipped out of the heavy grass at our feet and vanished in the thick +briers of the ditch bank. "Dy ah she go!" arose from a dozen throats, +and gone she was, in fact, safe in a thicket of briers which no dog nor +negro could penetrate. + +The bushes were vigorously beaten, however, and all of us, except Uncle +Limpy-Jack and Milker-Tim, crossed over to the far side of the ditch +where the bottom widened, when suddenly she was discovered over on the +same side, on the edge of the little valley. She had stolen out, the +negroes declared, licking her paws to prevent leaving a scent, and +finding the stretch of hillside too bare to get across, was stealing +back to her covert again, going a little way and then squatting, then +going a few steps and squatting again. "Dyah she go!" "Dyah she go!" +resounded as usual. + +Bang!--bang!--snap!--bang! went the four guns in quick succession, +tearing up the grass anywhere from one to ten yards away from her. As if +she had drawn their fire and was satisfied that she was safe, she turned +and sped up the hill, the white tail bobbing derisively, followed by the +dogs strung out in line. + +Of course, all of us had some good excuse for missing, Uncle +Limpy-Jack's being the only valid one--that his cap had snapped. He made +much of this, complaining violently of "dese yere wuthless caps!" With +a pin he set to work, and he had just picked the tube, rammed painfully +some grains of powder down in it, and put on another cap which he had +first examined with great care to impress us. "Now, let a ole hyah git +up," he said, with a shake of his head. "She got _man_ ready for her, +she ain't got you chil-lern." The words were scarcely spoken when a +little darkey called out, "Dyah she come!" and sure enough she came, +"lipping" down a furrow straight toward us. Uncle Limpy-Jack was on that +side of the ditch and Milker-Tim was near him armed only with a stout +well-balanced stick about two feet long. As the hare came down the hill, +Uncle Jack brought up his gun, took a long aim and fired. The weeds and +dust flew up off to one side of her, and she turned at right angles +out of the furrow; but as she got to the top of the bed, Milker-Tim, +flinging back his arm, with the precision of a bushman, sent his stick +whirling like a boomerang skimming along the ground after her. + +Tim with a yell rushed at her and picked her up, shouting, "I got her! I +got her!" + +Then Uncle Limpy-Jack pitched into him: "What you doin' gittin' in my +way!" he complained angrily. "Ain' you got no better sense 'n to git in +my way like dat! Did n' you see how nigh I come to blowin' yo' brains +out! Did n' you see I had de hyah when you come pokin' yer wooly black +head in my way! Ef I had n' flung my gun off, whar 'd you 'a' been now! +Don' you come pokin' in my way ag'in!" + +Tim was too much elated to be long affected by even this severity, and +when he had got out of Uncle Jack's way he sang out: + + "Ole Molly Hyah, + You' ears mighty thin. + Yes, yes, yes, + I come a-t'ippin' thoo de win'!" + +So far the honors were all Uncle Jack's and Milker-Tim's, and it was +necessary for the rest of us to do something. Accordingly, the bottom +having been well hunted, the crowd struck out for an old field over +the hill, known as "the long hillside." It was thick in hen-grass +and broom-straw, and sloped down from a piece of pine with a southern +exposure on which the sun shone warm. We had not reached it before +a hare jumped out of a bush near Charlie. In a few moments, another +bounced out before one of the dogs and went dashing across the field. +Two shots followed her; but she kept on till at last one of the boys +secured her. + +We were going down the slope when Peter called in great excitement, + +"Heah a ole hyah settin' in her haid. Come heah, Dan, quick! Gi' me your +gun; le' me git him!" + +This was more than Dan bargained for, as he had not got one himself yet. +He ran up quickly enough, but held on tightly to his gun. + +"Where is he? Show him to me: I 'll knock him over." + +As he would not give up the gun, Peter pointed out the game. + +"See him?" + +"No." + +"Right under dat bush--right dyah" (pointing). "See him? Teck keer dyah, +Don, teck keer," he called, as Don came to a point just beyond. "See +him?" He pointed a black finger with tremulous eagerness. + +No, Dan did not see, so he reluctantly yielded up the gun. + +Peter took aim long and laboriously, shut both eyes, pulled the trigger, +and blazed away. + +There was a dash of white and brown, a yell, and Don wheeled around +with his head between his forepaws stung by the shot as "molly" fled +streaking it over the hill followed only by the dogs. + +Peter's face was a study. If he had killed one of us he could not have +looked more like a criminal, nor have heard more abuse. + +Uncle Limpy-Jack poured out on him such a volume of vituperation and +contempt that he was almost white, he was so ashy. + +Don was not permanently hurt; but one ear was pierced by several shot, +which was a serious affair, as his beauty was one of his good points, +and his presence on a hare-hunt was wholly against the rules. Uncle +Limpy-Jack painted the terrors of the return home for Peter with a +vividness so realistic that its painfulness pierced more breasts than +Peter's. + +Don was carried to the nearest ditch, and the entire crowd devoted +itself to doctoring his ear. It was decided that he should be taken to +the quarters and kept out of sight during the Christmas, in the hope +that his ear would heal. We all agreed not to say anything about it +if not questioned. Uncle Limpy-Jack had to be bribed into silence by a +liberal present of shot and powder from us. But he finally consented. +However, when Met, in a wild endeavor to get a shot at a stray partridge +which got up before us, missed the bird and let Uncle Limpy-Jack, at +fifty yards, have number-six pellets in the neck and shoulder, Peter's +delinquency was forgotten. The old man dropped his gun and yelled, "Oh! +Oh!" at the top of his voice. "Oh! I 'm dead, I 'm dead, I 'm dead." He +lay down on the ground and rolled. + +Met was scared to death and we were all seriously frightened. Limpy-Jack +himself may have thought he was really killed. He certainly made us +think so. He would not let anyone look at the wound. + +Only a few of the shot had gone in, and he was not seriously injured, +but he vowed that it was all done on purpose, and that he was "going +straight home and tell Marster," a threat he was only prevented from +executing by us all promising him the gold dollars which we should find +in the toes of our stockings next morning. + + + + +III + +So far the day had been rather a failure; the misfortunes had exceeded +the sport; but as we reached the long hillside I have spoken of, the fun +began. The hares were sunning themselves comfortably in their beds, and +we had not gone more than two hundred yards before we had three up, and +cutting straight down the hill before us. + +Bang!--bang!--bang!--bang! went the guns. One hare was knocked over, and +one boy also by the kick of his gun; the others were a sight chase, and +every boy, man, and dog joined in it for dear life. + +"Whoop!--whoop! Dyah she go! Dyah she go! Heah, heah! Heah, heah! Heah, +heah, heah! Whoop, Rattler! Whoop, Nimrod! Heah, Snip! heah, heah, +Bruno! Heah, heah!" Everyone was striving to get ahead. + +Both hares were picked up before reaching cover, one being caught by +Bruno, who was magnificent in a chase. After many falls and failures +by all of us, Saul flung himself on the other, and gave a wild yell of +triumph. + +The "long hillside" was full of hares; they bounced out of the +hen-grass; slipped from brush-heaps and were run down, or by their speed +and agility escaped us all. The dogs got the frenzy and chased wildly, +sometimes running over them and losing them through a clever double and +dash. The old field rang with the chase until we turned our steps toward +home to get ready for the fun after dark. + +We were crossing the pasture on our way home. The winter sunset sky was +glowing like burnished steel; the tops of the great clump of oaks and +hickories in which the house stood were all that we could see over the +far hill; a thin line of bluish smoke went straight up in the quiet air. +The dogs had gone on ahead, even the two or three old watch-dogs ran +after the others, with their noses in air. + +The question of concealing Don and his ragged ears came up. It was +necessary to catch him and keep him from the house. We started up the +slope after him. As we climbed the hill we heard them. + +"Dee got a ole hyah now; come on," exclaimed one or two of the younger +negroes; but old Limpy-Jack came to a halt, and turning his head to one +side listened. + +"Heish! Dat ain' no ole hyah dey 're arter; dey 're arter Marster's +sheep--dat 's what 'tis!" + +He started off at a rapid gait. We did the same. + +"Yep, yep! Oun, oun, oun! Err, err, err!" came their voices in full cry. + +We reached the top of the hill. Sure enough, there they were, the +fat Southdowns, tearing like mad across the field, the sound of their +trampling reaching us, with the entire pack at their heels, the pointers +well in the lead. Such a chase as we had trying to catch that pack +of mischievous dogs! Finally we got them in; but not before the whole +occurrence had been seen at the house. + +The shouts that were borne to us, as rescuers began to troop across the +fields, drove our hearts down into our boots. + +The return to the house was widely different from the triumph of the +out-going in the morning. It was a dejected cortege that wended its +toilsome way up the hill. Uncle Limpy-Jack basely deserted us after +getting the promise of our gold dollars, declaring that he "told dem +boys dat huntin' ole hyahs warn' no business for chillern!" + +We knew that we had to "face the condign." There was no maudlin +sentiment in that region. Solomon was truly believed to have been the +wisest of men, and at least one of his decrees was still acted on in +that pious community. + +The black boys were shipped off to their mammies and I fear received +their full share of "the condign." + +We were ushered solemnly into the house and were marched upstairs to +meditate on our enormities. + +We could hear the debate going on below, and now and then a gentle voice +took up the cause. Presently a slow step mounted the stair and the door +opened. It was a grave senior--owner of Don. We knew that we were gone. + +"Boys, did n't you know better than that?" + +Three culprits looked at each other sideways and remained speechless. We +were trying to figure out which was the more politic answer. + +"Now, this is Christmas----" + +"A time of peace and good-will," said Met under his breath, but loud +enough to be heard. + +"Yes--and that 's the reason I am going to appeal to you as to what +should be done to you. Suppose you were in my place and I in yours, and +you had told me never--_never_ to take the pointers out to run +hares, and I knew I was disobeying you, and yet I had done it +deliberately--_deliberately_ disobeyed you--what would you do?" + +I confess that the case seemed hopeless. But Met saved the day. + +"I 'll tell you what I 'd do, sir." + +"What?" + +"I 'd give you another chance." + +"Hm---ah--ur----" + +It was, however, too much for him, and he first began to smile and then +to laugh. Met also broke out into a laugh, knowing that he had caught +him. + +So peace and good-will were restored and Christmas really began. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Long Hillside, by Thomas Nelson Page + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONG HILLSIDE *** + +***** This file should be named 23514.txt or 23514.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/5/1/23514/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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