Of course, we'll go and run through!" Heathcote whistled.
"They sometimes run a twelve-miler," said he.
"Never mind if they run twelve hundred," said Dick.

"We're bound to be in it, I tell you; it's our only chance." "Birket told me hardly anyone ever runs in it below the Upper Fourth." "Can't help that," said Dick, decisively; "there's nothing to prevent us." "Oh, of course not," said Heathcote, who inwardly reflected that there was nothing to prevent their jumping over the moon if they only could.
"You're game, then ?" "All right," replied the two pliable ones.
"Hurrah! You know, we may not keep close up all the way, but if we can only run it through it's all right.

By Jove! I am glad I thought of it, aren't you ?" "Awfully," they said.
Templeton opened its eyes that evening when it saw the "Firm" solemnly go to bed at half-past seven.
It wasn't their usual practice to shorten their days in this manner, and it was evident this early retirement meant something.
Speculation was set at rest next morning when, immediately after morning school, they appeared in their knickerbockers and running shoes and bare shins.
"Hullo!" said Cresswell, who was the first to encounter them in this trim, "are you youngsters going to have a little run of your own ?" Cresswell was in running costume, too--a model whipper-in--determined to do his part in the long afternoon's work which he had cut out for himself and his Harriers.
"We're going to run in the big hunt," said Dick, modestly.
"What!" said the senior, laughing; "do you know what the run is ?" "About twelve-miles, isn't it ?" said Coote, glad to air his knowledge.
"Yes.

I'm afraid it will be hardly worth your while to take such a short trot," said Cresswell, with a grin.
"We're going to try," said Dick, resolutely.

"Who are the hares, Cresswell ?" "Swinstead and Birket; good hares, too.