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Updated: May 20, 2025
"Don't bother about Mrs. Grundy. I'm so tired and so bored. Anybody may visit an invalid. Think this is a nursing home, and you're my daily visitor. Falloden's miles away on a drag-hunt. Ah, that's right!" he cried delightedly, as he saw that she had seated herself. "Now you shall have some tea!" She let him provide her, watching him the while with slightly frowning brows.
There they are wedged as close as they can sit; one with half a thigh off his breeches another with half an arm off his tattered coat a third without breeches at all, wearing, as a substitute, a piece of his mother's old petticoat, pinned about his loins a fourth, no coat a fifth, with a cap on him, because he has got a scald, from having sat under the juice of fresh hung bacon a sixth with a black eye a seventh two rags about his heels to keep his kibes clean an eighth crying to get home, because he has got a headache, though it may be as well to hint, that there is a drag-hunt to start from beside his father's in the course of the day.
"Our governess is away," said Billy triumphantly, "and our nurses can do nothing with us." "I don't doubt it," murmured Selwyn; "but where are they?" "Somebody must have locked them in the schoolroom," observed Billy carelessly. "Come on, Uncle Philip; we'll have a first-class drag-hunt before we unlock the schoolroom and let them out."
A drag-hunt is quite a different thing. The drag can be made to any strength; enabling hounds to run as if they were tied to it, and can be trailed so as to bring in all the dangerous places in the country with a certain air of plausibility, enabling a man to look round and exclaim, as he crams at a bullfinch or brook, 'he's leading us over a most desperate country never saw such fencing in all my life! Drag-hunting, however, as we said before, is not popular with sportsmen, certainly not with huntsmen, and though our friends with their wounded feelings determined to have one, they had yet to smooth over old Tom to get him to come into their views.
"We have waited such a very long time for you to do this," added Billy. "If you'll come up to the nursery we'll have a drag-hunt for you," pleaded Drina. "Everybody is out of the house and we can make as much noise as we please! Will you?" "Haven't you any governesses or nurses or something?" asked Selwyn, finding himself already on the stairway, and still being dragged upward.
Once or twice a week they can get off for an afternoon's ride across country, and they then wish to be absolutely certain of having their run, and of having it at the appointed time; and the only way to insure this is to have a drag-hunt.
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