Perks thinks the hare will go along by the line at first.

We might go along the cutting.

You can see a long way from there." The paperchase was found to be a more amusing subject of conversation than the reading powers of swallows.

Bobbie had hoped it might be.

And next morning Mother let them take their lunch and go out for the day to see the paperchase.
"If we go to the cutting," said Peter, "we shall see the workmen, even if we miss the paperchase." Of course it had taken some time to get the line clear from the rocks and earth and trees that had fallen on it when the great landslip happened.