He crawled out of the clump on the farther side, and proceeded to lay a train of raisins down the ditch of the hedge to the wood.

He did not lay it right down to the wood lest some inquisitive gamekeeper might espy it.

Then he returned with fine, red Indian caution to Erebus.

They rode home well content.
Next evening, with another bag of raisins, they sought the clump again.
Again the Terror laid a trail of raisins along the ditch from the wood to the clump.

But this evening he set a snare in the hedge of the clump.