| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: Al. "a right good honest salvo of barks."
[20] Lit. "Let them not hark back to join the huntsman, and desert the
trail."
Along with this build and method of working, hounds should possess
four points. They should have pluck, sound feet, keen noses, and sleek
coats. The spirited, plucky hound will prove his mettle by refusing to
leave the chase, however stifling the weather; a good nose is shown by
his capacity for scenting the hare on barren and dry ground exposed to
the sun, and that when the orb is at the zenith;[21] soundness of foot
in the fact that the dog may course over mountains during the same
season, and yet his feet will not be torn to pieces; and a good coat
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: summit of the moon-mountains still vainly waited the crawling
chaos Nyarlathotep.
The leap of the cats through space was very
swift; and being surrounded by his companions Carter did not see
this time the great black shapelessnesses that lurk and caper
and flounder in the abyss. Before he fully realised what had happened
he was back in his familiar room at the inn at Dylath-Leen, and
the stealthy, friendly cats were pouring out of the window in
streams. The old leader from Ulthar was the last to leave, and
as Carter shook his paw he said he would be able to get home by
cockcrow. When dawn came, Carter went downstairs and learned that
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