had a broad white face little eyes and grey whiskers it declared it only caught for their good and for the good of the community it assured he was guilty of a grave error of judgment in attempting to interfere it said a great deal about moral responsibility and the heavy obligations persons of wealth and position owe to themselves just then carrying a square s tin containing an infernal machine under his arm his countenance radiant in the sunshine came down the steps from the dining room window and while ran to greet him the cat crept back the far horizon again � its face was the face of sir barking and it made a spring at the but the pillar broke and the basin over it across the down on to the under the edge of the stone lip oh you ve spoilt my garden you ve spoilt my garden cried the basin has fallen the will never wash in it any more but patted him on the head tenderly do not weep over the fallen basin very dear one he said rather sing aloud te in praise of the glorious goddess of social revolution who has delivered the enemy of the people into our hands this is no affair of cat and bird but of the and the on which he so for a little space let the creature lie there let it understand what it is to have a back broken by the weight of an impossible burden let it try vainly to drag its limbs from beneath an immovable load observe it let it suffer very soon we will finish with it and the system it represents see in the name of humanity of labour of the unknown and millions of the poor i set a match to this good little and with the rapidity of thought blow tyrant capital into a thousand fragments of flesh and bone but to the little boy words and spectacle alike had become painful no no you cannot cure everything that way it is not just he cried and running forward with all his strength he lifted the stone basin off the wounded creature � cat man beast of prey modem be it it might he stopped to gather it up in his arms and repulsive though it was to comfort and protect it but just then came a rattle and h knocking him senseless the far horizon mr sat bolt upright in his chair uncertain of his identity and surroundings shaken and bewildered upstairs de � spent and by the writing of a would be smart on the first night performance of a screaming farce for one of to morrow s evening papers � had stumbled the fire irons as he across his room to bed heard the of the wire as the man flung himself down and that familiar sound restored his sense of actual yet all his mood was changed and softened the return to childhood had made a strange impression upon him filling him with a great for things apparently lost but exquisite and which having once been might though he knew not by what conceivable of time or chance once again be meanwhile he must have slept long for the wind had grown chill the voice of london the monstrous mother had grown weak and and the earthly light along the horizon had grown faint and by the whiteness of approaching dawn chapter iv a e range of high oak well well innocent of or to the human eye visible above it the heads of enormous elm trees in sunshine rising towards the ample curve of the summer sky at intervals with tumultuous rush and the of the hoofs of unseen horses galloping for all they are worth over grass the and rub of breeches against saddle the rattle of a chain or the rings of a bit a call a challenge smothered exclamations the long drawn of the stick through the air and the of the wooden head of it against ball or ground or something softer and more a pause broken only by distant voices and the sound or rather sense of men and horses in quiet and friendly movement followed by the tumultuous rush and and all the moving incidents of the heard yet drama over again for here it was that gallant and costly game beloved of oriental princes � rather described to mr yesterday by the driver of the as a kind of on horseback � in very full swing no doubt only unfortunately found himself on the wrong side of the and since he had learned indirectly from the observations of the police � directing the stream of carriages at the entrance gates � to other would be spectators that to the ground as to so much else obviously desirable in this world there is no admission except by ticket on the wrong side of these same the far horizon he recognised he was fated to stay it was a disappointment not to say an annoyance for he had come forth in accordance with his determination to make observations and inquiries regarding that same matter of amusement and since the influence of that which is to be acts upon us if not quite as strongly as the influence of that which has been the handsome eager countenance of young barking and the graceful figure of his fair companion as seen from the occurred very forcibly in this connection to mind he would go forth and behold that which they had gone forth to behold he would witness the sports of the and rich from these he elected somewhat proudly to take his first lessons in the fine art of amusement so here he was and here too � very much here � were the failure and of purpose fortunately unwonted exercise and the pure atmosphere tended to and agreeable harmony of the mental and physical being it followed 