=Hounds= (_Gen. Custer’s_). “His pack of hounds was an endless source of delight to the general. He had about forty, the stag-hounds that run by sight, and are on the whole, the fleetest and most enduring dogs in the world, and the fox-hounds that follow the trail with their noses close to the ground. The first rarely bark, but the latter are very noisy. We used to listen with amusement to their attempts to strike the key-note of the bugler when he sounded the calls summoning the men to guard-mount, stables, or retreat.”—Elizabeth Bacon Custer, _Boots and Saddles_, (1885). =Hounslow=, one of the gang of thieves that conspire to break into Lady Bountiful’s house.—Farquhar, _The Beaux’ Stratagem_ (1705). =Houri=, plu. =Houris=, the virgins of paradise; so called from their large black eyes (_hûr al oyûn_). According to Mohammedan faith, intercourse with these lovely women is to constitute the chief delight of the faithful in the “world to come.”—_Al Korân_. =House that Jack Built= (_The_), a cumulative nursery story, in which every preceding statement is repeated after the introduction of a new one; thus; 1. [_This is_] the house that Jack built. 2. [_This is_] the malt that lay in ... 3. [_This is_] the rat that ate ... 4. [_This is_] the cat that killed ... 5. [_This is_] the dog that worried ... 6. [_This is_] the cow with the crumpled horn, that tossed ... 7. [_This is_] the maiden all forlorn, that milked ... 8. [_This is_] the man all tattered and torn, that kissed ... 9. This is the priest all shaven and shorn, that married ... A similar accumulation occurs in another nursery tale, with this difference—the several clauses are repeated twice: once by entreaty of the old woman to perform some service to get her pig to cross over a bridge that she may get home; and then the reverse way, when each begins the task requested of them. It begins with a statement that an old woman went to market to buy a pig; they came to a bridge, which the pig would not go over, so the old woman called to a stick, and said: 1. [_Stick, stick, beat pig, for_] pig won’t go over the bridge, and I shan’t get home to-night. 2. [_Fire, fire_] burn stick, stick won’t beat pig ... 3. [_Water, water_] quench fire, fire won’t ... 4. [_Ox, ox_] drink water, water won’t ... 5. [_Butcher, butcher_] kill ox, ox won’t ... 6. [_Rope, rope_] hang butcher, butcher won’t ... 7. [_Rat, rat_] gnaw rope, rope won’t ... 8. [_Cat, cat_] kill rat, rat won’t ... Then the cat began to kill the rat, and the rat began to gnaw the rope, and the rope began ... etc., and the pig went over the bridge, and so the old woman got home that night. Dr. Doran gave the following Hebrew “parable” in _Notes and Queries_:—