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Updated: May 9, 2025
But Fortune favors the industrious who watch their chances; and one evening Erebus came bicycling swiftly up to the cats' home, and cried: "As I came over Long Ridge I saw Sir James Morgan poaching old Glazebrook's water!" The Terror did not cease from carefully considering the kitten in his hands, for he was making a selection to send to Rowington market. "Are you sure?" he said calmly.
"It's a long way from the ridge to the stream." "Not for my eyes!" said Erebus with some measure of impatience in her tone. "I'm quite sure that it was Sir James; and I'm quite sure that it was old Glazebrook's meadow. Lend me your handkerchief."
Of a sudden his brow grew smooth; and he said: "Look here: you mayn't fish my water; but there's no reason why you shouldn't fish Glazebrook's. I think that a man who nets his water loses all rights." "Yes, he does," said the Terror firmly. "Well, with one watching while the other fishes, it ought to be safe enough; and I'll stand the racket if you get prosecuted and fined.
"Oh ah yes n-n-not at all," stammered Sir James, blushing faintly. He was unused to women and found her presence confusing. "Oh, but it was," said Mrs. Dangerfield. "And I'm seeing that they don't take an unfair advantage of your kindness, for they told me that, thanks to Mr. Glazebrook's netting his part of it, there are none too many fish in the stream." "It's very good of you.
"Well, and what is this important matter you wished to see me about?" he said in a more indulgent tone than he had expected to use. "We saw you in Glazebrook's meadow this afternoon poaching," said the Terror in a gentle, almost deprecatory tone. Sir James sat rather more upright in his chair, with a sudden sense of discomfort. He had not connected this visit with his transgression.
"He's not going to poach, after all!" cried Erebus in a tone of acute disappointment. "Look here: are you really quite sure you saw him poaching at all? Long Ridge is a good way off," said the Terror looking across to it. "I did. I tell you he was half-way down old Glazebrook's meadow," said Erebus firmly.
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