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The dog obediently took up a position between the two fallen men, and eyed them in a way and with an ominous growl, that meant mischief if they dared to stir. Bladud easily overtook the other two, grasped them by their necks, and, using their heads as battering-rams, rapped them together. They sank half-stunned upon their knees, and begged for mercy.
"And, as if that were not enough," quoth he, "thou couldst not be contented without bringing thy pet pig hither, to make a fool both of thyself and me. Why, verily, we are the laughing-stock of the whole city." Bladud mildly assured his master that it was through no act of his that the pig had followed them to his father's court.
Let me hear what you can do to get an honest living." Bladud blushed deeply. He had been accustomed to spend his time in idle sports with the sons of the chieftains, and had not acquired the knowledge of anything likely to be of service in his present situation. He was silent for some minutes, but at length replied, "I can brighten arrows, string bows, and shoot at a mark."
"Your plan seems to me a good one," said Bladud, after some thought, "but I cannot help thinking that you are not quite right in your notion as to the direction of the tin islands. When I left Albion, I kept a careful note of our daily runs being somewhat curious on such points and it is my opinion that they lie there." He pointed almost due north. The captain smiled and shook his head.
"Hafrydda, do you regard me as a monster of ingratitude?" "Nay, brother, that do I not. I think that you could never despise one who has felt such genuine pity for you as to risk and endure so much." "Hafrydda, do you think there is no stronger feeling than pity for me in the heart of Branwen?" asked Bladud in a subdued, earnest voice.
"As you please, prince," returned the eccentric hunter with the utmost coolness, "the pigs were well able to look after themselves before you came, and, doubtless, they will be not less able after you go." Bladud laughed, and, putting his hand kindly on the man's shoulder, assured him that he would find for him a good successor to herd his pigs.
Won't these naked fellows follow us up and kill us, mayhap, when we're asleep?" "Doubtless they will try," answered Bladud, "but we land-faring men are in the habit of troubling our heads on that score, and guarding against it. Do you see yonder stream, or, rather, the line of bushes that mark its course?" "Ay, plainly."
It is true Gunrig found it very hard to hold his hand, but as Gadarn had been constituted commander-in-chief without a dissentient voice, in virtue of his superior intelligence and indomitable resolution, he felt bound to obey. Bladud and his friend Dromas, with their contingent, being at the lower end of the flat and far out of bow-shot, were not thus tempted to disobey orders.
The king clasped the girl's hands and kissed her on both cheeks. Then the queen followed, and asked her how she could have been so cruel as to remain so long away. And Branwen said a few words in reply. It seemed as if an electric shock passed through Bladud, for the voice also was the voice of Cormac! At this point the prince turned to look at his sister. She was gazing earnestly into his face.
"Your treatment was the best that could have been applied. I must now see his father, the king." "Alone?" asked the queen. "Alone," replied the doctor. "Well, what think ye of Bladud?" asked the king, when his physician entered his chamber, and carefully shut the door. "He is smitten with a fatal disease," said the doctor in a low, earnest voice.
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