They reverted to their usual tactics of first hamstringingthe horses and then spearing their riders.
But after all the resurrection of dead game may have its inconveniences, and accordingly some hunters take steps to prevent it by hamstringing the animal so as to prevent it or its ghost from getting up and running away.
But hamstringing the carcase is not the only measure which the prudent savage adopts for the sake of disabling the ghost of his victim.
At all events it appears that in certain circumstances some savages treat the dead bodies of men and beasts much alike, by hamstringing them in order to prevent their ghosts from getting up and walking.
They invariably kill animals by springing on from behind and hamstringing the victim.
The wolf's method of attack is from the rear, springing on its victim and hamstringing it and literally eating it alive.
Among the populace of Dublin, especially, excitement continued and showed itself detestably by hamstringing British soldiers.
The trait showed itself plainly in the hamstringing of soldiers and the houghing of cattle, as well as in the torturing of middlemen and tithe-proctors.
Hamstringing buffalo and stock means, I suppose, crippling them by hurting that big tendon above the hock.
I guess thishamstringing business is one of those things.
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