Last I saw of you two, Rick was lying across the legs of the guy who had been tailing me.
"The Wailing Octopus"
Harold Leland Goodwin
So we accepted the offer of a good friend's knockabout, and sailed around the dreaded Point with our little boat tailing behind at the end of her rope.
"More Jonathan Papers"
Elisabeth Woodbridge
About two hours after camping, whilst the party were engaged in digging trenches round them, and otherwise preparing for an impending thunder-storm, the black-boy that was tailing the cattle, came running into the camp in great excitement, with the news that the natives that had been seen in the morning, had hunted him and were now running the horses, so half the party immediately turned out in pursuit.
"The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine"
Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine