“Master, I will do my best,” answered the hound.
CHAPTER VII
HALF-A-CROWN
CLINK-OF-THE-HOLE.
“So useful it is to have money, heigh ho!
So useful it is to have money!”
A. H. Clough.
The old hound went straight through the town, smelling Clink’s footsteps, till he came into a large field of barley; and there, sitting against a sheaf, for it was harvest time, they found Clink-of-the-Hole. He was a very ugly little brown man, and he was smoking a pipe in the shade; while crouched near him was the poor little woman, with her hands spread before her face.
“Good day, sir,” said Clink to Jack. “You are a stranger here, no doubt?”
“Yes,” said Jack; “I only arrived this morning.”