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"I would go a long way if it were worth while. I don't suppose you noticed if there were any dogs about where those hens are?" Blacky pretended not to hear this. "I've often thought," said he, "of you and Mrs. Reddy as I have looked down at those fat hens. It is too bad that they are so far away." It's a poor watch-dog who sleeps with both eyes closed. Bowser the Hound.
At any rate it was certainly not the result of a struggle between the jailers and the prisoner, between the despotism of a dungeon and the liberty of a victim, it was simply the never-ending repetition of the first scene played by man when the curtain of the Creation rose; it was Eve in Paradise. And now, which of the two, the mother or the watch-dog, had the right of it?
"That's his merit," Benjulia answered; "the women-servants have quarrelled with every other man I've had. They can't quarrel with this man. I have raised his wages in grateful acknowledgment of his usefulness to me. I hate noise." "Is that the reason why you don't keep a watch-dog?" "I don't like dogs. They bark."
That is no sort of a janitor for the house containing the second-largest private gem-collection in all Rome. Nor any sort of watch-dog." "How came the door unbarred?" I wondered, "who showed you up here?" "I came up alone," said Agathemer, significantly. "I have not seen a human being except the snoring janitor. This house is at the mercy of any sneak- thief. But you can return to that later.
My old dog picked up something this morning that he oughtn't to have, and he's dead, poor feller. 'Poor feller, said the man. 'Found an old bone with phosphorus on it, I guess. 'What do you want for this one? 'Five shillings. 'Is he a good watch-dog? 'He's a grand watch-dog. 'He looks fierce enough. 'Ah! So the caretaker gave the man his five shillings, and the man went off and left me.
"Never!" Tanno affirmed. "Can you recall what happened?" queried Muso. Tanno rubbed his chin. "It seems to me," he said, "that every time I saw a snarling cur or an open-mouthed watch-dog rush at Caius, the dog slowed his rush before he reached him, circled about him, sniffing, and trotted back where he came from."
The goal of the path of covetousness may be discerned in the face of any old money-worshipper; keeping guard over his piles of wealth, like a surly watch-dog; or, if perchance he has failed, haunting the places where fortune has deceived him, like an unquiet ghost. Inquire and learn; consider and discern. There need be no doubt about the direction of life's various ways.
Peggy leaned toward him with shining eyes. "Really? And would you like him? For I don't want you to take him just to oblige me." Jack made haste to defend himself against such a charge. His home, it seemed, was on the outskirts of the city, and his mother sometimes complained that it was lonely, and would be glad, Jack was sure, of a good watch-dog.
After a while he was able to distinguish the outline of her casement, and, with much patience and some little skill remaining from the boyhood days, he kept up the faint call. Down at the big barn the chained watch-dog tore himself with a fury of barking at the intruder, but mountain-lions were common in the Gap, and the noisy sentinel gained no credit for his alarm.
"I am glad you have come, sir," said he, as he recognized my colleague. "Mr. Marchmont is sitting inside like a watch-dog, and he growls if any of us even walks across the room." The words formed a complaint, but there was a certain geniality in the speaker's manner which made me suspect that Inspector Badger was already navigating his craft on a lee shore.
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