And his tongue wagging sore!
"Nay," said Dame Hickory, "Ye False Faerie!"But a wolf t'was indeed, and famished2 was he.
Walter de la Mare3, Dame HickoryThe first thing that Hazel learned the next morning was that Thrayonlosa haddied during the night. Thethuthinnang was distressed4, for it was she who hadpicked Thrayonlosa as one of the more sturdy and sensible does in the Mark andpersuaded her to join in the escape. After they had come through the bridgetogether, she had helped her ashore5 and fallen asleep beside her in theundergrowth, hoping that she might have recovered by the next day. But she hadwoken to find Thrayonlosa gone and, searching, had found her in a clump6 ofreeds downstream. Evidently the poor creature had felt that she was going to dieand, in the manner of animals, had slipped away.
The news depressed8 Hazel. He knew that they had been lucky to get so manydoes out of Efrafa and to escape from Woundwort without having to stand andfight. The plan had been a good one, but the storm and the frightening efficiencyof the Efrafans had nearly defeated it. For all the courage of Bigwig and of Silver,they would have failed without Kehaar. Now Kehaar was going to leave them,Bigwig was wounded, and his own leg was none too good. With the does to lookafter, they would not be able to travel in the open as fast or as easily as they hadon the way down from Watership. He would have liked to stay where they werefor a few days, so that Bigwig could recover his strength and the does find theirfeet and get used to life outside a warren. But the place, he realized, washopelessly inhospitable. Although there was good cover, it was too wet forrabbits. Besides, it was evidently close to a road busier than any they had known.
Soon after daylight they began to hear and smell hrududil passing, not so faraway as the breadth of a small field. There was continual disturbance9 and thedoes in particular were startled and uneasy. Thrayonlosa's death made mattersworse. Worried by the noise and vibration10 and unable to feed, the does keptwandering downstream to look at the body and whisper together about thestrange and dangerous surroundings.
He consulted Blackberry, who pointed11 out that probably it would not be longbefore men found the boat; then very likely several would be close by for sometime. This decided13 Hazel that they had better set out at once and try to reachsomewhere where they could rest more easily. He could hear and smell that theswamp extended a long way downstream. With the road lying to the south, theonly way seemed to be northward14, over the bridge, which was in any case the wayhome.
Taking Bigwig with him, he climbed the bank to the grass track. The first thingthey saw was Kehaar, picking slugs out of a clump of hemlock15 near the bridge.
They came up to him without speaking and began to nibble16 the short grassnearby.
After a little while Kehaar said, "Now you getting mudders, Meester 'Azel. Allgo fine, eh?""Yes. We'd never have done it without you, Kehaar. I hear you turned up just intime to save Bigwig last night.""Dis bad rabbit, pig fella, 'e go fight me. Plenty clever, too.""Yes. He got a shock for once, though.""Ya, ya. Meester 'Azel, soon is men come. Vat17 you do now?""We're going back to our warren, Kehaar, if we can get there.""Ees finish here now for me. I go to Peeg Vater.""Shall we see you again, Kehaar?""You go back hills? Stay dere?""Yes, we mean to get there. It's going to be hard going with so many rabbits,and there'll be Efrafan patrols to dodge18, I expect.""You get dere, later on ees vinter, plenty cold, plenty storm on Peeg Vater.
Plenty bird come in. Den7 I come back, see you vere you live.""Don't forget, then, Kehaar, will you?" said Bigwig. "We shall be looking out foryou. Come down suddenly, like you did last night.""Ya, ya, frighten all mudders und liddle rabbits, all liddle Pigvigs run avay."Kehaar arched his wings and rose into the air. He flew over the parapet of thebridge and upstream. Then he turned in a circle to the left, came back over thegrass track and flew straight down it, skimming just over the rabbits' heads. Hegave one of his raucous19 cries and was gone to the southward. They gazed afterhim as he disappeared above the trees.
"Oh, fly away, great bird so white," said Bigwig. "You know, he made me feel Icould fly, too. That Big Water! I wish I could see it."As they continued to look in the direction where Kehaar had gone, Hazelnoticed for the first time a cottage at the far end of the track, where the grasssloped up to join the road. A man, taking care to keep still, was leaning over thehedge and watching them intently. Hazel stamped and bolted into theundergrowth of the swamp, with Bigwig hard on his heels.
"You know what he's thinking about?" said Bigwig. "He's thinking about thevegetables in his garden.""I know," replied Hazel. "And we shan't be able to keep this lot away fromthem once they get the idea into their heads. The quicker we push on the better."Shortly afterward20 the rabbits set out across the park to the north. Bigwig soonfound that he was not up to a long journey. His wound was painful and theshoulder muscle would not stand hard use. Hazel was still lame21 and the does,though willing and obedient, showed that they knew little about the life of hlessil.
It was a trying time.
In the days that followed -- days of clear sky and fine weather -- Blackavarproved his worth again and again, until Hazel came to rely on him as much as onany of his veterans. There was a great deal more to him than anyone could haveguessed. When Bigwig had determined22 not to come out of Efrafa withoutBlackavar, he had been moved entirely23 by pity for a miserable24, helpless victim ofWoundwort's ruthlessness. It turned out, however, that Blackavar, when notcrushed by humiliation25 and ill-treatment, was a good cut above the ordinary. Hisstory was an unusual one. His mother had not been born an Efrafan. She hadbeen one of the rabbits taken prisoner when Woundwort attacked the warren atNutley Copse. She had mated with an Efrafan captain and had had no other mate.
He had been killed on Wide Patrol. Blackavar, proud of his father, had grown upwith the resolve to become an officer in the Owsla. But together with this -- andparadoxically -- there had come to him from his mother a certain resentmentagainst Efrafa and a feeling that they should have no more of him than he caredto give them. Captain Mallow, to whose Mark -- the Right Fore12 -- he had beensent on trial, had praised his courage and endurance but had not failed to noticethe proud detachment of his nature. When the Right Flank needed a junior officerto help Captain Chervil, it was Avens and not Blackavar who had been selected bythe Council. Blackavar, who knew his own worth, felt convinced that his mother'sblood had prejudiced the Council against him. While still full of his wrongs hehad met Hyzenthlay and made himself a secret friend and adviser26 of thediscontented does in the Right Fore. He had begun by urging them to try to getthe Council's consent to their leaving Efrafa. If they had succeeded they wouldhave asked for him to be allowed to go with them. But when the does' deputationto the Council failed, Blackavar turned to the idea of escape. At first he had meantto take the does with him, but his nerve, strained to the limit, as Bigwig's hadbeen, by the dangers and uncertainties27 of conspiracy28, had given way and in theend he had simply made a dash on his own, to be caught by Campion. Under thepunishment inflicted29 by the Council his mercurial30 spirit had fallen low and he hadbecome the apathetic31 wretch32 the sight of whom had so much shocked Bigwig. Yetat the whispered message in the hraka pit this spirit had flickered33 up again whereanother's might well have failed to do so, and he had been ready to set all on thehazard and have another shot. Now, free among these easy-going strangers, hesaw himself as a trained Efrafan using his skill to help them in their need.
Although he did all that he was told, he did not hesitate to make suggestions aswell, particularly when it came to reconnoitering and looking for signs of danger.
Hazel, who was ready to accept advice from anybody when he thought it wasgood, listened to most of what he said and was content to leave it to Bigwig -- forwhom, naturally, Blackavar entertained a tremendous respect -- to see that he didnot overreach himself in his warm-hearted, rather candid34 zeal35.
After two or three days of slow, careful journeying, with many halts in cover,they found themselves, late one afternoon, once more in sight of Caesar's Belt,but further west than before, close to a little copse at the top of some risingground. Everyone was tired and when they had fed -- "evening silflay every day,just as you promised," said Hyzenthlay to Bigwig -- Bluebell36 and Speedwellsuggested that it might be worthwhile to dig some scrapes in the light soil underthe trees and live there for a day or two. Hazel felt willing enough, but Fiverneeded persuasion37.
"I know we can do with a rest, but somehow I don't altogether like it, Hazel-rah," he said. "I suppose I've got to try to think why?""Not on my account," answered Hazel. "But I doubt you'll shift the others thistime. One or two of these does are 'ready for mudder,' as Kehaar would say, andthat's the real reason why Bluebell and the rest are prepared to be at the troubleof digging scrapes. Surely it'll be all right at that rate, won't it? You know whatthey say -- 'Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.'""Well, you may be right," said Fiver. "That Vilthuril's a beautiful doe. I'd like achance to get to know her better. After all, it's not natural to rabbits, is it? -- onand on day after day."Later, however, when Blackavar returned with Dandelion from a patrol theyhad undertaken on their own initiative, he came out more strongly against theidea.
"This is no place to stop, Hazel-rah," he said. "No Wide Patrol would bivouachere. It's fox country. We ought to try to get further before dark."Bigwig's shoulder had been hurting him a good deal during the afternoon andhe felt low and surly. It seemed to him that Blackavar was being clever at otherpeople's expense. If he got his way they would have to go on, tired as they were,until they came to somewhere which was suitable by Efrafan standards. Therethey would be as safe -- no more and no less -- than they would have been if theyhad stayed at this copse; but Blackavar would be the clever fellow who had savedthem from a fox that had never existed outside his own fancy. His Efrafanscoutcraft act was getting to be a bore. It was time someone called his bluff38.
"There are likely to be foxes anywhere about the downs," said Bigwig sharply.
"Why is this fox country more than anywhere else?"Tact39 was a quality which Blackavar valued about as much as Bigwig did; andnow he made the worst possible reply.
"I can't exactly tell you why," he said. "I've formed a strong impression, but it'shard to explain quite what it's based on.""Oh, an impression, eh?" sneered40 Bigwig. "Did you see any hraka? Pick up anyscent? Or was it just a message from little green mice singing under a toadstool?"Blackavar felt hurt. Bigwig was the last rabbit he wanted to quarrel with.
"Ye think I'm a fool, then," he answered, his Efrafan accent becoming moremarked. "No, there was neether hraka ner scent41, but I still think that this is aplace where a fox comes. On these patrols we used to do, ye know, we--""Did you see or smell anything?" said Bigwig to Dandelion.
"Er -- well, I'm not really quite sure," said Dandelion. "I mean, Blackavarseems to know an awful lot about patrolling and he asked me whether I didn't feela sort of--""Well, we can go on like this all night," said Bigwig. "Blackavar, do you knowthat earlier this summer, before we had the benefit of your experience, we wentfor days across every kind of country -- fields, heather, woods, downs -- and neverlost one rabbit?""It's the idea of scrapes, that's all," said Blackavar apologetically, "New scrapesget noticed; and digging can be heard a surprisingly long way, ye know.""Let him alone," said Hazel, before Bigwig could speak again. "You didn't gethim out of Efrafa to bully42 him. Look, Blackavar, I suppose I've got to decide this. Ithink you're probably right and there is a certain amount of risk. But we're at riskall the time until we get back to our warren and everyone's so tired that I think wemight just as well stop here for a day or two. We shall be all the better for it."Enough scrapes were finished by soon after sunset and next day, sure enough,all the rabbits felt a great deal better for a night underground. As Hazel hadforeseen, there was some mating and a scuffle or two, but no one was hurt. By theevening a kind of holiday spirit prevailed. Hazel's leg was stronger and Bigwig feltfitter than at any time since he went into Efrafa. The does, harassed43 and bony twodays before, were beginning to look quite sleek44.
On the second morning, silflay did not begin until some time after dawn. Alight wind was blowing straight into the north bank of the copse, where thescrapes had been dug, and Bluebell, when he came up, swore he could smellrabbits on it.
"It's old Holly45 pressing his chin glands46 for us, Hazel-rah," he said. "A rabbit'ssneeze on the morning breeze sets homesick hearts aglow--""Sitting with his rump in a chicory clump and longing47 for a nice plump doe,"replied Hazel.
"That won't do, Hazel-rah," said Bluebell. "He's got two does up there.""Only hutch does," replied Hazel. "I dare say they're fairly tough and fast bynow, but all the same they'll never be quite like our own kind. Clover, for instance-- she'd never go far from the hole on silflay, because she knew she couldn't run asfast as we can. But these Efrafan does, you see -- they've been kept in by sentriesall their lives. Yet now there aren't any, they wander about quite happily. Look atthose two, right away under the bank there. They feel they can -- Oh, great Frith!"As he spoke48 a tawny49 shape, dog-like, sprang out of the overhanging nut bushesas silently as light from behind a cloud. It landed between the two does, grabbedone by the neck and dragged her up the bank in a flash. The wind veered50 and thereek of fox came over the grass. With stamping and flashing of tails every rabbiton the slope dashed for cover.
Hazel and Bluebell found themselves crouched51 with Blackavar. The Efrafanwas matter-of-fact and detached.
"Poor little beast," he said. "You see, their instincts are weakened by life in theMark. Fancy feeding under bushes on the windward side of a wood! Never mind,Hazel-rah, these things happen. But look, I tell you what. Unless there are twohombil, which would be very bad luck, we've got till ni-Frith at least to get away.
That homba won't be hunting any more for some time. I suggest we all move onas soon as we can."With a word of agreement, Hazel went out to call the rabbits together. Theymade a scattered52 but swift run to the northeast, along the edge of a field ofripening wheat. No one spoke of the doe. They had covered more than threequarters of a mile before Bigwig and Hazel halted to rest and to make sure that noone had fallen behind. Blackavar came up with Hyzenthlay, Bigwig said,"You told us how it would be, didn't you? And I was the one who wouldn'tlisten.""Told you?" said Blackavar. "I don't understand.""That there was likely to be a fox.""I don't remember, I'm afraid. But I don't see that any of us could possiblyhave known. Anyway, what's a doe more or less?"Bigwig looked at him in astonishment53, but Blackavar, apparently54 unconcernedeither to stress what he had said or to break off the talk, simply began to nibblethe grass. Bigwig, puzzled moved away and himself began to feed a little distanceoff, with Hyzenthlay and Hazel.
"What's he getting at?" he asked after a while. "You were all there when hewarned us, two nights ago, that there was likely to be a fox. I treated him badly.""In Efrafa," said Hyzenthlay, "if a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn'taccepted, he immediately forgot it and so did everyone else. Blackavar thoughtwhat Hazel decided; and whether it turned out later to be right or wrong was allthe same. His own advice had never been given.""I can believe that," said Bigwig. "Efrafa! Ants led by a dog! But we're not inEfrafa now. Has he really forgotten that he warned us?""Probably he really has. But whether or not, you'd never get him to admit thathe warned you or to listen while you told him he'd been right. He could no moredo that than pass hraka underground.""But you're an Efrafan. Do you think like that, too?""I'm a doe," said Hyzenthlay.
-<*>-During the early afternoon they began to approach the Belt and Bigwig was thefirst to recognize the place where Dandelion had told the story of the Black Rabbitof Inlé.
"It was the same fox, you know," he said to Hazel. "That's almost certain. Iought to have realized how likely it was that--""Look here," said Hazel, "you know very well what we owe to you. The does allthink El-ahrairah sent you to get them out of Efrafa. They believe no one elsecould have done it. As for what happened this morning, it was my fault as muchas yours. But I never supposed we would get home without losing some rabbits.
In fact we've lost two and that's better than I expected. We can get back to theHoneycomb tonight if we press on. Let's forget about the homba now, Bigwig -- itcan't be altered -- and try to -- Hello, who's this?"They were coming to a thicket55 of juniper and dog roses, tangled56 at ground levelwith nettles57 and trails of bryony on which the berries were now beginning toripen and turn red. As they stopped to pick a line into the undergrowth, four bigrabbits appeared out of the long grass and sat looking down at them. One of thedoes, coming up the slope a little way behind, stamped and turned to bolt. Theyheard Blackavar check her sharply.
"Well, why don't you answer his question, Thlayli?" said one of the rabbits.
"Who am I?"There was a pause. Then Hazel spoke.
"I can see they're Efrafans because they're marked," he said. "Is thatWoundwort?""No," said Blackavar, at his shoulder. "That's Captain Campion.""I see," said Hazel. "Well, I've heard of you, Campion. I don't know whetheryou mean us any harm, but the best thing you can do is to let well alone. As far aswe're concerned, our dealings with Efrafa are finished.""You may think that," replied Campion, "but you'll find it's otherwise. That doebehind you must come with us; and so must any others that are with you."As he spoke, Silver and Acorn58 appeared lower down the slope, followed byThethuthinnang. After a glance at the Efrafans, Silver spoke quickly toThethuthinnang, who slipped back through the burdocks. Then he came up toHazel.
"I've sent for the white bird, Hazel," he said quietly.
As a piece of bluff it was effective. They saw Campion look upward nervouslyand another of the patrol glanced back to the cover of the bushes.
"What you're saying is stupid," said Hazel to Campion. "There are a lot of ushere and unless you've got more rabbits than I can see, we're too many for you."Campion hesitated. The truth was that for once in his life he had acted rashly.
He had seen Hazel and Bigwig approaching, with Blackavar and one doe behindthem. In his eagerness to have something really worthwhile to show on his returnto the Council, he had jumped to the conclusion that they were alone. TheEfrafans usually kept fairly close together in the open and it had not occurred toCampion that other rabbits might straggle more widely. He had seen a goldenopportunity to attack -- perhaps kill -- the detestable Thlayli and Blackavar,together with their one companion -- who seemed to be lame -- and bring the doeback to the Council. This he could certainly have done; and he had decided toconfront rather than ambush59 them, in the hope that the bucks60 would surrenderwithout fighting. But now, as more rabbits began to appear in ones and twos, herealized that he had made a mistake.
"I have a great many more rabbits," he said. "The does must stay here. The restof you can go. Otherwise we shall kill you.""Very well," said Hazel. "Bring your whole patrol into the open and we'll do asyou say."By this time a considerable number of rabbits was coming up the slope.
Campion and his patrol looked at them in silence but made no move.
"You'd better stay where you are," said Hazel at length. "If you try to interferewith us it will be the worse for you. Silver and Blackberry, take the does and goon. The rest of us will join you.""Hazel-rah," whispered Blackavar, "the patrol must be killed -- all of them.
They mustn't report back to the General."This had also occurred to Hazel. But as he thought of the dreadful fight and thefour Efrafans actually torn to pieces -- for that was what it would mean -- hecould not find it in his heart to do it. Like Bigwig, he felt a reluctant liking61 forCampion. Besides, it would take some doing. Quite probably some of his ownrabbits would be killed -- certainly wounded. They would not reach theHoneycomb that night and they would leave a fresh blood trail wherever theywent. Apart from his dislike of the whole idea, there were disadvantages thatmight be fatal.
"No, we'll let them alone," he replied firmly.
Blackavar was silent and they sat watching Campion as the last of the doesdisappeared through the bushes.
"Now," said Hazel, "take your patrol and go the same way that you saw uscome. Don't speak -- go."Campion and the patrol made off downhill and Hazel, relieved to be rid ofthem so easily, hurried after Silver, with the others close behind.
Once through the Belt, they made excellent progress. After the rest of a dayand a half the does were in good shape. The promise of an end to the journey thatnight and the thought that they had escaped both the fox and the patrol madethem eager and responsive. The only cause of delay was Blackavar, who seemeduneasy and kept hanging about in the rear. At last, in the late afternoon, Hazelsent for him and told him to go ahead, on the line of the path they were following,and look out for the long strip of the beech62 hanger63 in the dip on the morning side.
Blackavar had not been gone very long before he came racing64 back.
"Hazel-rah, I've been quite close to that wood you spoke of," he said, "andthere are two rabbits playing about on a patch of short grass just outside it.""I'll come and see," said Hazel. "Dandelion, you come, too, will you?"As they ran down the hill to the right of the track, Hazel fairly skipped torecognize the beech hanger. He noticed one or two yellow leaves and a faint touchof bronze here and there in the green boughs65. Then he caught sight of Buckthornand Strawberry running toward them across the grass.
"Hazel-rah!" cried Buckthorn. "Dandelion! What happened? Where are theothers? Did you get any does? Is everyone all right?""They'll be here very soon," said Hazel. "Yes, we've got a lot of does andeveryone who went has come back. This is Blackavar, who's come out of Efrafa.""Good for him," said Strawberry. "Oh, Hazel-rah, we've watched at the end ofthe wood every evening since you went. Holly and Boxwood are all right -- they'reback at the warren: and what do you think? Clover's going to kindle66. That's fine,isn't it?""Splendid," said Hazel. "She'll be the first. My goodness, we've had a time, Ican tell you. And so I will -- what a story! -- but it must wait a bit. Come on -- let'sgo and bring the others in."By sunset the whole party -- twenty rabbits all told -- had made their way upthe length of the beech hanger and reached the warren. They fed among the dewand the long shadows, with twilight67 already fallen in the fields below. Then theycrowded down into the Honeycomb to hear Hazel and Bigwig tell the story oftheir adventures to those who had waited so eagerly and so long to hear it.
As the last rabbits disappeared underground the Wide Patrol, which hadfollowed them from Caesar's Belt with superlative skill and discipline, veeredaway in a half-circle to the east and then turned for Efrafa. Campion was expert atfinding a night's refuge in the open. He planned to rest until dawn and then coverthe three miles back by evening of the following day.
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