Pevensey Castle

As we passed through Pevensey he suggested that we stop and have a look over the castle. As we were returning towards the car, we paused a moment to watch a ring of children Brownies, I guessed, by their getup who were singing a ditty in shrill, untuneful voices "What is it that they say, Hastings? I cannot catch the words." I listened till I caught one refrain. " And catch a fox (и поймать лиса) And put him in a box (и посадить его в ящик) And never let him go (и никогда его не выпускать: «и никогда не позволять ему уйти») ." "And catch a fox and put him in a box and never let him go!" repeated Poirot (повторил Пуаро). His face had gone suddenly grave and stern (его лицо неожиданно стало серьезным и строгим). "It is very terrible that, Hastings (очень ужасно это, Гастингс)." He was silent a minute (он молчал: «он был молчалив» с минуту). "You hunt the fox here (вы охотитесь на лис здесь)?" "I don't (я нет). I've never been able to afford to hunt (я никогда не был в состоянии позволить себе охотиться). And I don't think (и я не думаю) there's much hunting in this part of the world (здесь много возможностей для охоты: «там есть много /возможностей/ для охоты в этой части мира»)." fox [fOks], stern [st@:n], afford [@'fO:d] " And catch a fox And put him in a box And never let him go." "And catch a fox and put him in a box and never let him go!" repeated Poirot ...»