" But Levin could not help troubling, and recalled Kitty's words at parting: "Mind you don't shoot one another.

" The dogs came nearer and nearer, passed each other, each pursuing its own scent.

The expectation of snipe was so intense that to Levin the squelching sound of his own heel, as he drew it up out of the mire, seemed to be the call of a snipe, and he clutched and pressed the lock of his gun.