The Hounds And The Fury

The Hounds and the Fury is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2006 by American Artists, Inc.

Title page illustrations copyright © 2006 by Lee Gildea, Jr.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data

Brown, Rita Mae.

The hounds and the fury : a novel/Rita Mae Brown.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Fox hunting—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.R698H63 2006

813'.54—dc22 2006042768

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