"Quite, quite, enough!—So that's a hitter!

Why, my own fate I thought was bitter,

And full excuse for cut and run;

But give me still the missing gun!

Or rather, Sirius! send me this,

No gun at all, to hit or miss,

Since sporting seems to shoot thus double,

That right or left it brings us trouble!"

So ended Dash;—and Pointer Don

Prepared to urge the moral on;