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A neat brass plate will some day be placed upon the door of the Blue Grotto to mark the dormitory I slept in, and my bed will be preserved in the local museum!" "Now, no nonsense! If you don't turn up at the meeting with a manuscript, you won't be admitted!" "Bow-wow! How very severe we've grown, all of a sudden!" mocked Dulcie, as she danced away.
"Please excuse my dear old dog," he said with maudlin tenderness; "the poor dumb animal seems to know that I'm taking his side in the controversy. Bow-wow means, in his language, Fie upon the cruel hands that bore holes in our head and use saws on our backs. Ah, Nathan, if you have got any dogs in that horrid place of yours, pat them and give them their dinner!
In an instant the good dog sprang to the child's side, barking furiously, for every dog in Switzerland knows that those who sleep on snow pillows seldom wake up. "Bow-wow! Bow-wow!" he barked, loud and long, "Bow-wow! Bow-wow!" which meant in his language, "Little master, wake up!" But Hans was dreaming of the mountains where the travellers went, and did not hear. "Bow-wow! Bow-wow! Wake up!
"I went to do a commission for my mother," said Katherine, indifferently. "Ah! if we had a corps of such commissionnaires as you are, we should spend our lives sending and receiving messages," returned the Colonel, with a laugh. He spoke in short authoritative sentences, with a loud harsh voice, and in what might be termed the "big bow-wow" style.
While he stood irresolute, the wail was repeated, and, this time, there was a melancholy sort of "bow-wow" mingled with it, that sent the blood careering through his veins like wildfire. Fatigue and hunger were forgotten.
"There are fish here I'm sure, and " "I've got him," I shouted, beginning to haul in, for I could feel something heavy at the end of the line which had given several sharp snatches as I hauled. "Oh, what a shame!" cried Bob. "I don't see why they should come first to old Sep. Here, I know what it is. Only an old bow-wow."
"The big bow-wow I can do myself, like anyone going," said Scott, but he owned that the exquisite touch of Miss Austere was denied him; and it seems certainly to have been denied in greater or less measure to all her successors.
Dakie Thayne had accompanied with the reading of the ballad, slightly transposed and adapted. As Leslie led Sir Charles before the curtain, in response to the continued demand, he added the concluding stanza, "The dame made a courtesy, The dog made a bow; The dame said, 'Your servant, The dog said, 'Bow-wow."
"Bow-wow!" barked the little poodle dog, and I suppose he was saying: "Oh, can't I have it a little while?" By this time Mab had her package open. "Oh!" she cried. "It's skates! Ice skates! Oh, I've always wanted a pair!" "Ha! That's what I thought they were, when Daddy talked so much about ice and freezing," said Hal. He had managed, in the meanwhile, to get his bundle away from Roly-Poly.
His father, in the opinion of many competent Chinese, had been sincerely anxious for the welfare of his country; on the other hand, he had failed to learn anything from the lessons he had received at the hands of foreigners, towards whom his attitude to the last was of the bow-wow order.
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