Black Tex dismissed the drummer with an impatient gesture and was pondering solemnly upon his grievances when a big, square-jowled cat rushed out from behind the bar and set up a hoarse, raucous mewing. "Ah, shet up!" growled Brady, throwing him away with his foot; but as the cat's demands became more and more insistent the barkeeper was at last constrained to take some notice.

I saw a man with close-cropped red hair and a large square-jowled face, such as I have seen upon an English prize-fighter. 'We call him Peter the Red, and sometimes the Red Lion, in the army, said my companion. 'He is said to be the bravest man in the army, though I cannot admit that he is braver than some other people whom I could mention. Still he is undoubtedly a very good leader.

I first saw his big, square-jowled, short-muzzled head peering out between some low cornel bushes, his brown eyes regarding me questioningly. He fawned on me, of course, and I made friends with him, fondled him, pulled his ears and played with him a while. Agathemer tartly enquired whether we really had time to waste on skylarking with strange dogs.