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"Don't linger, Larry," shouted Tom Collins. "Ah! thin, it's cruel to tear me away. Good-night to ye, Bow-wow, we'll be back before mornin', ye purty creature." With this affectionate farewell, Larry ran after his friends and followed them down the banks of the tumbling stream towards the `R'yal Bank o' Calyforny, which was destined that night, for a time at least, to close its doors.
Scream scream all together. Ah!" The footsteps were coming down the alleyway toward the door. Bea filled her lungs, and opened her mouth in valiant preparation. "Wee-wee-wee, bow-wow!" Two little paws scratched at the door. Bea's breath issued in a feeble squeak, as she dropped neatly down upon the floor and buried her face in her hands. Berta swooped upon her. "The puppy!"
"Be off, I say, to h l or Connaught; or if you don't, take my word for it, you'll find yourself in a worse mess. To address my father in such language! Be off, sir; ha!" Bow-wow! said his face once more. "Ah," said Solomon, when the man had retired, "I see your patience and your difficulties but there is no man free from the latter in this checkered vale of sorrow."
Her comment: "He is always like that," seems to convey an image of his whereabouts to his master, confirmed perhaps by expressive dog-substitutes for speech. "You mustn't let my bow-wow worry you, Lady Gwendolen. He presumes till he's checked, on principle. Send him to lie down over here. Here, Ply, Ply, Ply!... Oh, won't he come?"
There never were, there never will be, grander speeches than those which were made on this occasion, and yet the entire convention was in the hands of a mob. The women, as well as the men, were greeted with cries of "shut up," "sit down," "get out," "bow-wow," "go it, Susan," and their voices drowned with hisses and cat-calls.
Roly-Poly kept prancing around in front, running here and there, and barking louder than ever. "Don't get in our way, Roly!" called Mr. Blake with a laugh, "or we might skate right over you!" "Bow-wow!" barked the little poodle dog. And I suppose that was his way of saying: "No, I won't! I'll be good." Hal and Mab were beginning to understand the first simple rules of skating.
The Chinaman understood the question, and immediately replied, "Bow-wow," meaning to say, "It is puppy-dog." You will wish to know whether the Englishman went on eating; but I cannot tell you this. While the poor are in want of food, the rich eat a great deal too much. A Chinese feast in a rich man's house lasts for hours.
Blanche. "I thought you were here, Sisty: may I stay?" Pisistratus. "Why, my dear child, the day is so fine that instead of losing it indoors, you ought to be running in the fields with Juba." Juba. "Bow-wow." Blanche. "Will you come too? If Sisty stays in, Blanche does not care for the butterflies!"
The cows heard it first and mooed in their stalls. The soldier cousin heard it, on his way to Hans's house, where he was going to find out whether Prince had come back. Hans's uncle and aunt heard it as they searched through the house for their little boy. The neighbours heard it, and opened their doors to listen. "Bow-wow! Bow-wow! Come here! Come here!"
It is curious to compare the difference of ear with which nations hear the cries of animals, and form their onomatopoetic, or "bow-wow" imitations. For instance, the North Americans express by "whip-poor-will" what the Brazilians call "Joao-corta-pao." The Guinea fowl may have been the "Afraa avis;"but that was a dear luxury amongst the Romans, though the Greek meleagris was cheap.
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