CHAPTER IX.
WATER-SPOUT If Mr.Gundry was in one way right, he was equally wrong in the other.
Firm came home quite safe and sound, though smothered with snow and most hungry; but he thought that he should have staid out all the night, because he had failed of his errand.

Jowler also was full of discontent and trouble of conscience.

He knew, when he kicked up his heels in the snow, that his duty was to find somebody, and being of Alpine pedigree, and trained to act up to his ancestry, he now dropped his tail with failure.
"It comes to the same thing," said Sawyer Gundry; "it is foolish to be so particular.

A thousand better men have sunk through being so pig-headed.

We shall find the rogue toward the end of March, or in April, if the season suits.