The whine of a straggling hound could be heard.
Etampes is a long straggling town hemmed in between the railway on the north and the Chalouette on the south; the latter is a tributary of the Juine which waters the eastern outskirts of the town.
In 1836 Old and New Accrington were merely straggling villages with about 5000 inhabitants.
The streams, which are plentiful, are traced through the uplands and glens by a line of straggling brushwood and rank herbage.
It is a large and straggling place, with a citadel, and the population amounts to 25,000.
