I glanced at Mr. Hedges, thus frankly referred to.
It was stopped, quite involuntarily, by Mr. Hawthorn and Mr. Hedges.
Many flowers were in bloom, the hedges were green, and the air soft and warm.
I felt that, to cricketers who intended to play Mr. Hedges, any objections which I might urge would appear quite trivial.
So far as I could see, Mr. Hawthorn, Mr. Hedges, Mr. Sapsworth, and I were the only members of the Storwell team left on the ground.
Mr. Hedges did not hurry up; he never could have hurried up, even if his manner of "fielding" the ball had not wholly deprived him of his wind.
'I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; 'but those serpents!
Hawthorn and Mr. Hedges were not only doing their best to trample on each other's toes, but each was seeking for a place of security behind the other's back.
Then it dashed away to the wood, the youth following; over hedges and ditches they both went, till they reached the rocky pass which bordered the herdsman's land.