"Do you hang out at Highgate?" continued the sportsman.
"Hang out?"
"Ay, are you a hinhabitant?"
"To be sure I am."
"Is there any birds thereabouts?"
"Plenty o' geese," sharply replied the old gentleman.
"Ha! ha! werry good!—but I means game;—partridges and them sort o' birds."
"I never see any except what I've brought down."
"I on'y vish I may bring down all I see, that's all," chuckled the joyous Mr. Grubb.
"What's the matter?"