"Did you catch the
animal?"
"No, Mr. Gotobed; we couldn't catch him. To tell the truth we
didn't try; but we had a nice little skurry for four or five
miles."
"Some of you look very wet" Captain Glomax and Ned Botsey were
standing near the carriage; but the Captain as soon as he heard
this, broke into a trot and followed the hounds.
"Some of us are very wet," said Ned. "That's part of the fun."
"Oh;--that's part of the fun. You found one fox dead and you didn't
kill another because you didn't try. Well; Mr. Morton, I don't
think I shall take to fox hunting even though they should introduce
it in Mickewa. "What's become of the rest of the men?"
"Most of them are in the brook," said Ned Botsey as he rode on
towards Dillsborough.
Mr. Runciman was also there and trotted on homewards with Botsey,
Larry, and Kate Masters. "I think I've won my bet," said the
hotel-keeper.
"I don't see that at all. We didn't find in Dillsborough Wood."
"I say we did find in Dillsborough Wood. We found a fox though
unfortunately the poor brute was dead."
"The bet's off I should say. What do you say, Larry?"
Then Runciman argued his case at great length and with much
ability. It had been intended that the bet should be governed by
the fact whether Dillsborough Wood did or did not contain a fox on
that morning.
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