midnight
Ah ! if that intelligent policeman had probed the mysteries that underlay the cloak ! I am glad he did not , for the Consumptive is a most entertaining beast of prey . Another of our poaching men was obliged to borrow from me the money for his dog licences , and in gratitude he allowed me to see his brace of greyhounds work at midnight . People think that greyhounds can not hunt by scent , but this man has a tiny black and a large brindle that work like basset-hounds . They are partners , and they have apparently a great contempt for the rules of coursing . One waits at the bottom of a field , while his partner quarters the ground with the arrowy fleetness of a swallow .