The sound made by a flock of geese resembles the baying of hounds. The dogs used for baying are typically curs, hounds, and various purpose-bred crosses. Upon reaching the old cemetery, they notice the distant baying of a giant hound. When alarmed, they give out shrill, baying alarm calls. All of this could be lost to a fearful wartime government or a baying mob. However the posse is baying for blood and want to lynch the pair. Ferry's friends hustled him past this baying pack. This behavior is known as "baying" or keeping the boar "at bay". This bay is very much distinguishable from their normal day to day baying. By the final chapter of the story, Paul is reduced to baying at the moon.