“Unsportsmanlike!” bellowed the big man. “Give it fair play, give it fair play!” And he came after his own hat quickly but cautiously, with burning eyes. The hat had seemed at first to droop and dawdle as in ostentatious langour on the sunny lawn; but the wind again freshening and rising, it went dancing down the garden with the devilry of a pas de quatre . The eccentric went bounding after it with kangaroo leaps and bursts of breathless speech, of which it was not always easy to pick up the thread: “Fair play, fair play⁠ ⁠… sport of kings⁠ ⁠… chase their crowns⁠ ⁠… quite humane⁠ ⁠… tramontana⁠ ⁠… cardinals chase red hats⁠ ⁠… old English hunting⁠ ⁠… started a hat in Bramber Combe⁠ ⁠… hat at bay⁠ ⁠… mangled hounds⁠ ⁠… Got him!”