"
"Not catch him after all that! Then the man was certainly right to
poison that other fox in the wood. How long will they go on?"
"Half an hour perhaps."
"And you call that hunting! Is it worth the while of all those men
to expend all that energy for such a result? Upon the whole, Mr.
Morton, I should say that it is one of the most incomprehensible
things that I have ever seen in the course of a rather long and
varied life. Shooting I can understand, for you have your birds.
Fishing I can understand, as you have your fish. Here you get a fox
to begin with, and are all broken-hearted. Then you come across
another, after riding about all day, and the chances are you can't
catch him!"
"I suppose," said Mr. Morton angrily, "the habits of one country
are incomprehensible to the people of another. When I see Americans
loafing about in the bar-room of an hotel, I am lost in amazement."
"There is not a man you see who couldn't give a reason for his
being there. He has an object in view, though perhaps it may be no
better than to rob his neighbour. But here there seems to be no
possible motive."
CHAPTER XI
From Impington Gorse
The fox ran straight from the covert through his well-known haunts
to Impington Park, and as the hounds were astray there for two or
three minutes there was a general idea that he too had got up into
a tree,--which would have amused the Senator very much had the
Senator been there.
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