Word: packing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...officer, termed Master of the Hunt, who shall have a general supervision and control of the hunt, and who, assisted by the whips, shall keep the pack together in slow hunts...
When the trail is found, the pack close up, and follow it strictly. If, however, the hares are viewed at any part of the run, the trail may be disregarded, and the hares chased by the shortest route. The master of the hunt (the hares not having been sighted) determines a point from which the hounds are permitted to race for home...
...were treated to a spectacle not to be exceeded in interest even by the colored prints that adorn so many of our college rooms. The "meet" took place within the grounds of a gentleman's place, and nothing could be more picturesque than the sight of the large pack of hounds, and the "whip" in his red coat and top-boots riding around them, calling them all by name. By degrees the different gentlemen and ladies arrived, and before long one who had formerly been the master of the hounds, - a fine-looking old gentleman with snow-white hair...
...have read an essay on "Water on the Brain, or a Notion (an Ocean) in the Head." There were others who seemed to be laboring under the difficulty of which a Junior member boldly complained, saying that his subject was such that he had been obliged to write a pack of prodigious nonsense, which he was going to inflict on us as a punishment for making him write...
...want a pack of visiting or call cards, neatly encased, either white, rose, lavender, stone, canary, or Nile green, call at the Gazette office. We have the only rep cards (five tints) in the city, and offer them at the same price as the plain tints...