Herne's

Off the subject slightly, but since you mentioned Ian, I wonder if you have read Brian Herne's "White Hunters-The Golden Age of Safaris"?

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The bone-white bodies leapt and danced beneath the prancing feet of Herne's dark mount, while the souls descended to the earth like a lowering mist.

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Herne's cold laughter sounded in her ears and she thought, "So it begins!"

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Looking at the whitened fields above her, she saw ruby eyes and blood-red ears as Herne's hunting hounds rampaged through the night sky.

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Then Herne's arm pointed to the North, and the winds were suddenly baying with the voices of many hounds, while with a wild tossing of leaves, the released winds blew away the last of the clouds.

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Herne's horn resounded through the cold night air as they came to rest high above the secret meadow.

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Just think, "continued Mrs. Holbrooke," those men at Herne's only work five and a half days in the week, and those days are short ones.

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Of course, some of Herne's hired men had to go, to see how the baby behaved.

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Herne's men on a Sunday morning spending their time in washing overalls, shirts, and socks.

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But we have still Her Majesty's pets at the stables to look at before returning to town, so we walk blithely down Herne's Walk toward the

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