HUNTS WITH JOKROCKS 



CHAPTER III 



A QUIET BYE 



PIGG was all eager for the fray, and readily 

 came into Stobbs's suggestion, that they 

 should go out, and just take their chance 

 of finding a fox, and of his going to ground or not 

 as luck and his courage served. 



' Ar '11 gan to'ard Duncan's, and get his grey for 

 wor Ben,' said Pigg, 'gin ye '11 set the lad on to 

 seddle the rest ' ; adding, ' the Squi-er ar 's warned 

 'ill ride Arterxerxes. 



Off then Pigg went to Duncan Nevin's, and re- 

 turned with a woebegone-looking horse in a 

 halter, before Stobbs had made any progress in his 

 department. Ben was not to be found. Neither 

 at Mrs. Candy, the tart-woman's, nor at Mrs. 

 Biffin's apple-stall, nor at Strap, the saddler's, nor 



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