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The child sucked his dirty thumb and edged nearer. "Naw, suh, but I've seen a dawg's," he answered, drawing out his thumb like a stopper and sticking it in again. "Well, you watch this and you'll see a horse's. There, now don't take your eyes away." He whittled silently for a time, then as he looked up his glance fell on the stagecoach in the yard, and he turned from it to Jack Hicks.
We'll find him in that circus tent, Tom, if he's in the town at all." "First circus they've had in S in a dawg's age," ventured the guide, with the irrelevancy of an excited boy. "Rice's was there once, I can't remember jest when, an' they was some talk of Barnum las' yeah, they say, but he done pass us by. He's got a Holy Beheemoth that sweats blood this yeah, they say.
"Miss Gault," suggested Marden in lofty reproof, "suppose you leave the interrogatory to me, if you please? Yes, I recollect that notice. My attention was called to it at the time. But," again addressing Link, "why did you call 'Glenmuir Cavalier' a 'BIRD dog'? Was it to throw us off the track or " "Don't know no What's-His-Name Cav'lier!" snapped Ferris. "This dawg's name is Chum.
I call him 'Chum. You see, that dawg's more like a chum to me than " "No use asking about his pedigree, I suppose," resumed the postmaster, "I mean who his parents were and " "Nope," said Link. "I I found him. His leg was " "Pedigree unknown," wrote the postmaster; then, "What classes are you entering him for?" "Classes?" repeated Link dully.
He acts real foolish about what he calls justice to the ignerent an' weak, an' when hes bawss perposes to let him shaih in thu profits an' holp do thu ole woman outen her rights, he jes' up an' bends hes gun oveh thu dawg's haid he's been on thu puny list eveh since! Then he, thu white felleh, goes out, pulls up thu jumpah's stakes an' re-locates thu mine in thu ole woman's name."
"Yo' dawg's bigger and hit ain't fair," said the other again and, seeing Chad's worried look, he pressed suddenly forward; but Chad had begun to smile, and was sitting down on his stone again. Jack had leaped this time, with his first growl during the fight, and Whizzer gave a sharp cry of surprise and pain.
"Wal," he said, with a sigh, "that's settled." His words were an expression of relief. "I don't understand. You've let him go. You've given him a chance to get away in safety after " "Yes," responded the other grimly, "a dawg's chance." The answer silenced all further protest. "Yes," Seth went on reflectively, "I've done with him, I guess; we all have. Say, he's Rosebud's uncle." "Ah!"
"Yo' dawg's got a heap o' sense," said the old hunter, and Chad told him how old Jack was, and how a cattle-buyer from the "settlements" of the Bluegrass had given him to Chad when Jack was badly hurt and his owner thought he was going to die. And how Chad had nursed him and how the two had always been together ever since.
"He's cussed about the chain, sir apt to drag on it and try to chaw it through. Besides, sir, when a dawg's sick, he's like a man same as me an' you; he likes to 'ave 'is partic'lar pals with 'im. Now, that dawg's fond o' me an' Byng. "I see. But supposing exercise isn't what he wants after all? Suppose he needs a long rest and lots of sleep? How about that?"
"Your dawg's at the other end of the yard, Mr Stubbs, that's why you don't see him. He's had an orkardness with Sayres, Mr Robarts' dog, as was in the next kennel, and I thought they'd have strangled themselves a-trying to get at one another, and so I had to separate them." "Will it be safe to let him loose?" asked Stubbs.
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