39| And Peter Dagger was muchly impressed and sayeth unto her, You are the cleverest I have dogged.
40| Then they fell to hugging.
41| And in their hugging they did play with their affections a game like unto chess, for each admitted fondness for the other, and they shrouded their love jibes in thick language, pretending to be wriggling information from each other, either being too smart and elusive for the other.
42| But it turned that Peter Dick Dagger sparkled in his head and shrewdly twisted these things, for he decided that Buck Tool was indeed more clever than he, and knowing this he worked it so that Buck Tool was lured into the game and Dagger turned her own cleverness upon her and she did give more information than she got, though she thinking it the other way.
43| Thus did Dagger return to the bedplace of Mary Underbunny, where, while they did hug, he told her of all he had learned, which was only that there was something shaky going on and it was difficult to put two numbers together at this time.
