The Terror gave his word to snare no more pheasants the more readily since if Mrs.Dangerfield were informed of his poaching, she would forbid him to set another snare for anything.

Besides, he had been somewhat shaken by his narrow escape the day before.

Only he pointed out that he could not be quite sure of never snaring a pheasant, for pheasants went everywhere.

Mr.Carrington admitted this fact and said that it would be enough if he refrained from setting his snares on ground sacred to the sacred bird.

If pheasants wandered into them on unpreserved ground, it was their own fault.