Thanks therefore to the firmness of her friends Mrs.Dangerfield never learned of the Terror's narrow escape.
The Twins bore the loss of income from the sacred bird with even minds, since the sum needed for the fur stole was so nearly complete.

They turned their attention to the habits of the hare, and snared one in the hedge of the farthest meadow of farmer Stubbs.

Mrs.Blenkinsop's cook paid them half-a-crown for it; and the three guineas were complete.
Though it wanted a full week to Christmas, the Terror lost no time making the purchase.

As he told Erebus, they would get the choice of more stoles if they bought it before the Christmas rush.

Accordingly on the afternoon after the sale of the hare they rode into Rowington to buy it.
It was an uncommonly cold afternoon, for a bitter east wind was blowing hard; and when they dismounted at the door of Barker's shop, Erebus gazed wistfully across the road at the appetizing window of Springer, the confectioner, and said sadly: "It's a pity it isn't Saturday and we had our 'overseering' salary.