There was plenty of fun after that, for both dogs and boys had learned that there was a right way to work at that kind of hunting. Before noon they had thirteen fine large rabbits hanging on the fence, and nobody could have told by the look of any shock in the field that either a dog or a boy had been through it.
"Boys," said Squire Murray, when he met them coming through the barn-yarn gate, "which of you caught the most rabbits?"
"Which of us caught the most?"
"Yes, that's what I'd like to know. Which of you is the one I want to hire to catch my rabbits for me?"
The boys looked at one another for a moment, and then Tad slowly remarked, "Well, father, I guess it's Ben. He got the first bite at every one of 'em."