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CHAPTER IX. 



Sunday was to us all a real day of rest, and 

 we enjoyed every minute of it, and for once 

 listened to a very long sermon without the 

 fidgets. The Rectory boys came up for a 

 chat in the afternoon, so we let the dogs out 

 and went down to the beach and strolled 

 quietly about, neither dogs nor humans 

 indulging in anything like play — all were 

 too stiff and sore to think of it. 



We were all out again early on Monday 

 morning, but without nets and taking only 

 sticks ; and we spent a short day, with a long 

 lunch, looking up outlying rabbits in the 

 hedges of the farm at the foot of the Denes ; 

 and here the two lurchers, who during the 

 days at the nets had taken it easy and 



