A trot of five miles is disagreeable, and two o'clock in November is late for finding a first fox; and then poisoning is a vice that may grow into a habit! There was a general feeling that Goarly ought to be extinguished, but an idea that it might be difficult to extinguish him.

The whips, nevertheless, cantered on to the corner of the covert, and Tony put in his hounds with a cheery voice.

The Senator remarked that the gorse was a very little place,--for as they were on the side of an opposite hill they could see it all.

Lord Rufford, who was standing by the carriage, explained to him that it was a favourite resort of foxes, and difficult to draw as being very close.

"Perhaps they've poisoned him too," said the Senator.