Word: leash
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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...mourning. Under Carl Philipp things are more cheerful. It is a time for hunting and merry-making. A huge boar is carried triumphantly aloft in a wagon, and then a stag. Falconers ride by with hooded birds perched upon their wrists; and sturdy huntsmen follow with eager hounds in leash. Through all our vicisitudes, we have now come to the dawn of the nineteenth century, and hereafter prosperity reigns supreme. Carl Frederick of Baden, the restorer of the university, goes by amid huzzas from a joyful people and the peals of music. A grand jubilee car with two maidens...