He found the distance more considerable than he at first supposed.

It was full an hour before he was fairly upon the opposite side.

Here he made a careful search and was soon rewarded by finding unmistakable footprints, so that he considered it settled that the hunter had passed straight through the thicket.
"It's a quaar being he is entirely, when it's meself that could barely git into the thicket, and he might have saved his hide by making a short thramp around, rather than plunging through in this shtyle." Teddy pressed on for two hours more, when he began to believe that he was close upon the hunter, who must have traveled without intermission to have eluded him thus far.

He therefore maintained a strict watch, and advanced with more caution.
The woods began to thicken, and the Hibernian was brought to a stand-still by the sound of a rustling in the bushes.

Proceeding some distance further, he came upon the edge of a bank or declivity, where he believed the strange hunter had laid down to rest.