Pseudonymous Foot Beagles 63 



We hastened out, and our astounded gaze 

 fell upon a long, scraggy man, with a face 

 like an east wind, seated, like a pair of 

 animated tongs, on a meek-looking quad. 

 But the pack, good lack ! we saw it not ; 

 surely that two and a half couple of wastrel 

 harriers could not be the pack ! Ah, no ! for 

 presently there came pottering up a few 

 more so-called beagles, and then after an 

 interval some more, accompanied by the two 

 whips, riding in most delightfully leisurely 

 fashion. Our scraggy friend with the face 

 was wrathful. 



" Hulloa ! where the have you been ? 



Why the did you not keep the hounds 



together ? Don't try your games on me. 

 . . . I'm nae cannie to be trifled wi'," etc., 

 etc. 



About half-a-dozen mounted men, chiefly 

 farmers, came dribbling up. One stout old 

 fellow, on rather a nice-looking mare, was 



