"You'd look like a tom-tit on a haystack," said his lordship.

"And if you got on my pony, you'd look like a haystack on a tom-tit," said Kate.

Then it was felt that Kate Masters had had the best of that little encounter.
"Yes;--I got one there," said Lord Rufford, while his friends were laughing at him.
At length Captain Glomax was seen in the road and Tony was with him at once, whispering in his ear that the hounds if allowed to go on would certainly run into Dillsborough Wood.

"D---- the hounds," muttered the Captain; but he knew too well what he was about to face--so terrible a danger.

"They're going home," he said as soon as he had joined Lord Rufford and the crowd.
"Going home!" exclaimed a pink-coated young rider of a hired horse which had been going well with him; and as he said so he looked at his watch.
"Unless you particularly wish me to take the hounds to some covert twenty miles off," answered the sarcastic Master.
"The fox certainly went on to Littleton," said the elder Botsey.
"My dear fellow," said the Captain, "I can tell you where the fox went quite as well as you can tell me.