[The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wouldbegoods CHAPTER 9 11/33
The others laughed. 'I wonder,' said Dicky, 'whether he'll get a shilling or half-a-crown for it.' Oswald had been meditating in gloomy silence, now he cheered up and said-- 'Of course! I'd forgotten that.
He'll get his tooth money, and the drive too.
So it's quite fair for us to have the fox-hunt while he's gone.
I was thinking we should have to put it off.' The others agreed that it would not be unfair. 'We can have another one another time if he wants to,' Oswald said. We know foxes are hunted in red coats and on horseback--but we could not do this--but H.O.had the old red football jersey that was Albert's uncle's when he was at Loretto.
He was pleased. 'But I do wish we'd had horns,' he said grievingly.
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