light ot" the morning and in the dusk of the 

 evening he crouched in oi\e spot after another 

 beside the path b\ which ho tlunii^hi i\\c iuiie 

 niight lea\'e or return, persisting in [\\c i|uest 

 until he had conipleteK ringed the fonn with his 

 ambuscades a\\<\ satisfied hiinscU that the h.iu* 

 was no longer usinj^i" it. 



At last he went to examliu^ the seat : it was 

 cold and sccMulc'ss, and \\c ^c'all^t■d wIlu a tool's 

 business he had i^ixcn his best energies to. 

 Standing there he ihided hiinr.ell loi ihrowini.; 

 away so nian\' [necious hours, above all fi»r 

 being cnitwitted b\' a hare. Scatliing wms his 

 self-reproach, yet brief, tor Ctvcy \'0\ wasted 

 little time in xain regrets. lie wantcnl to come 

 to a settlement, and was concerneil to know 

 where the sly hussy oi a grass-feeder h.ul be- 

 taken herself. For a moment he stood with his 

 bluish-green eyes fixed on \aianiy, lost in 

 thought, as if wondering where she could be, 

 then stole down the slope, trailing his great 

 brush as he went. He was abandoning the hill. 



This was on the night that the hare narrowly 

 escaped falling into the gully, so that after all 

 puss might have safely returned instead (.t 

 racking his poor brain over a new seat. In 

 the end he found one on the moor, atop of 

 a grassy mound which had once taken his 



