misquoted Wally cheerfully.
“We don’t know, bless you. Cleared out, harness and all. We’ll have a wallaby and kangaroo hunt after this. Who’s won?”
“Billy,” said Jim, indicating that sable hero. “In a common walk. Fed him over. All right, now, Billy, you catch-um kangaroo, wallaby—d’you hear?”
Billy showed a set of amazingly white teeth in a broad grin, and departed swiftly and silently.
“Where’s Lee Wing?”
“Had to tear him off Hogg!” Jim grinned. “You never saw such a shindy. They’ve retired in bad order.”
“Where’s Fudge?”
“Left at the post!”
“Where’s Mrs. Brown—and the tortoise?”
“Great Scott!” Jim looked round blankly. “That never occurred to me. Where is she, I wonder?”