hare and hounds
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Paper chases, or hare and hounds as they are sometimes called, were openly arranged and encouraged; and if boys liked to take walks in the country, they could do so with a minimum of risk.
From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Frank Feller
They played a nerve-wracking game of hare and hounds in tricky floods of Earthlight, upon slopes and spills of broken rock, amid a goblin's garden of towering jagged spires.
From Master of the Moondog by Stanley Mullen
The following day was fixed for the run, and promptly at two o'clock the hare and hounds assembled.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by J. Erskine (John Erskine) Clarke
Once those fellows come ashore they'll play hare and hounds with us to the king's taste.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
The Rover boys had come to Putnam Hall in the fall, and now summer sports were cast aside among the pupils, and football and hare and hounds became the rage.
From The Rover Boys at School by Edward Stratemeyer
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