"It is a buster!" said Bertie.

"It is the biggest fellow that has been trapped this season. You won't catch nary 'nother like him. He is a whopper!"

"And it is alive, too!"

"Half and half. He is hurt that bad, it won't take much to finish him. He would show fight if he wasn't dead beat. Shall I pop him over?"

"I don't want to kill him," said Bertie.

"Have you had a fair squint at him?"

"Yes."

"I won't be long settling of his hash."

Jack tapped him on the head with a stone, and after a few shivers the animal was still.

"That killed him so sudden he didn't know what was a hurting of him."