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While Eustacia looked on from this distance the boy's form visibly started: he slid down the bank and ran across towards the white gate. "Well?" said Eustacia. "A hop-frog have jumped into the pond. Yes, I heard 'en!" "Then it is going to rain, and you had better go home. You will not be afraid?" She spoke hurriedly, as if her heart had leapt into her throat at the boy's words.
"'I fights at a hunder and seventy, says Strokher. "'An' me, says Hardenberg, 'at a hunder an' seventy-five. We're matched. "'Is it a go? inquires Strokher. "'You bet your great-gran'mammy's tortis-shell chessy cat it's a go, says Hardenberg, prompt as a hop-frog catching flies. "We don't lose no time trying to reason with 'em, for they is sure keen on havin' the go.
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