There was no help for it--I must finish with him on the spot, as long as it was possible.

I looked about me, and the place seemed suitable; never a light, never a house--nothing but stubble-fields, fallows, and a few stunted trees.

I stopped and eyed him in the moonlight with an angry stare.
'Enough of this foolery!' said I.
He had tamed, and now faced me full, very pale, but with no sign of shrinking.
'I am quite of your opinion,' said he.

'You have tried me at the running; you can try me next at the high jump.

It will be all the same.
It must end the one way.' I made my holly whistle about my head.
'I believe you know what way!' said I.