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"Alec," interrupted Roger plaintively, "if you say one more word to me about bulls, cows, or any other farmyard impedimenta, I shall burst at once into loud tears. I warn you."
They were walking once more along the white, dusty road; but the springy exhilaration of the outward journey had gone out of their steps. A short but pithy conversation with the ancient rustic, conducted mostly in earsplitting yells, had speedily shown the crestfallen Roger the precise nature of the wild goose (or should it be wild bull? ) he had been chasing. Alec, it might be noticed in passing, was not being at all kind about it.