Today’s Totally Random
Lines
Saw’st
thou not, boy, how Silver made it good
At
the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault.
Lord
The Taming of the Shrew Induction, Scene i, Line 17
The setting: The lord has just
arrived back from the hunt and he’s giving instructions for the caring of the
dogs. Silver is one of the hunting dogs. In the coldest fault means when
the scent of the prey had nearly been lost.
So that should make sense, n’est
pas?
Use of the coldest fault is perhaps
what led to the use of cold when describing a trail, or an investigation, as in
Cold Case the television show.
Apparently Silver picked up the
scent at the hedge-corner, when the trail had appeared to be lost. That Silver,
he’s got quite the nose, eh?
This guy here has got a pretty solid schnozz.
I'll bet he'd make a great hunting dog.
2 comments:
I think he's a littttle small to go out hunting.
Hunting very small prey. Perhaps a chipmunk?
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