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156 Pincher is very well bred, and he does know one or two things, though we never could teach him to beg. But if you tell him to hold on&mdash;he will do it, even if you only say "Seize him!" in a whisper.

So we arranged it all. Dora said she wouldn't play; she said she thought it was wrong, and she knew it was silly&mdash;so we left her out, and she went and sat in the dining-room with a goody book, so as to be able to say she didn't have anything to do with it, if we got into a row over it.

Alice and H. O. were to hide in the furze-bushes just by where Lord Tottenham changes his collar, and they were to whisper, "Seize him!" to Pincher; and then when Pincher had seized Lord Tottenham we were to go and rescue him from his deadly peril. And he would say, "How can I reward you, my noble young preservers?'"and it would be all right.

So we went up to the Heath. We were afraid of being late. Oswald told the others what Procrastination was&mdash;so they got to the furze-bushes a little after two o'clock, and it was rather cold. Alice and H. O. and Pincher hid, but Pincher did not like it any more than they did, and as we three walked up and down