Is worth more then one in the tree. :P
Ah, across the the river, I remember that from Sleepy Hollow. But is it dangerous to get complacent if they get over the bridge?
I think it's dangerous to get complacent, period.
After all, not all of the stories you hear are true, remember.
... and the best parts often don't fit into stories, or are made up out of the whole cloth. So it's entirely possible that the river is merely a river, and nothing more, nothing less. I'd want to keep running, if I were them, until I knew they weren't going to overtake me.
but then, given my mindset, I'd be more inclined to have a spare sword on me, including paying for it, and to stand around rather than run. And take as many of them with me as I could, hound or otherwise. Hunt me? If you dare, if you dare.
Come get some.
(and, of course, thirty seconds later I'd be dead. *grin*)