"Gone with the wind",p.637 : "Accepting Uncle Tom's Cabin as revelation second only to the Bible,
the Yankee women all wanted to know about the bloodhounds which every Southerner kept to track down runaway slaves.
And they never believed her when she told them she had only seen one bloodhound in all her life and it was a small mild dog and not a huge ferocious mastiff.
They wanted to know about the dreadful branding-irons which planters used to mark the faces of their slaves. "