two o'clock in November
`` Perhaps he 's a stranger , '' said Morton . `` And that 's the way you treat him ! '' It was past two when the hounds were put into the gorse , and certainly no one was in a very good humour . A trot of five miles is disagreeable , and two o'clock in November is late for finding a first fox ; and then poisoning is a vice that may grow into a habit ! There was a general feeling that Goarly ought to be extinguished , but an idea that it might be difficult to extinguish him . The whips , nevertheless , cantered on to the corner of the covert , and Tony put in his hounds with a cheery voice . The Senator remarked that the gorse was a very little place , -- for as they were on the side of an opposite hill they could see it all .