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The tug that pulls us across the dock on our way out looks absurdly small, like a little Spitz dog pulling a great deerhound; but it does its work well, and presently we glide into a narrow cut between high walls; this is the lock, the entrance to the dock, and the water is held up by great gates at each end as required, just as it is on river locks for boats.
For him the coursing meetings cannot come too often; the swarming gudgeons flock to his net; he arranges the odds almost as he chooses with the help of his friends; and simpletons who do not know a greyhound from a deerhound bet wildly not on dogs, but on names. The "sport" has all the uncertainty of roulette, and it is villainously cruel into the bargain.
It appeared to him that, after all, she had not overtaken her master; that notwithstanding Kiddie's confidence in her running powers, she had proved that a Highland deerhound was not the equal in speed of a well-trained prairie pony. Rube blamed himself for having allowed her to break away from him. He was glad, however, that she was not lost, and that her injury was not serious.
To be shot at from close quarters is always irritating, and the novelty of the experience increased Dickson's natural wrath. He fumed on the shore like a deerhound when the stag has taken to the sea. So hot was his blood that he would have cheerfully assaulted the whole crew had they been within his reach.
His manners were those of one polite for his own sake. To his remote inferiors he was kind would even encourage them to liberties, but might in turn take greater with them than they might find agreeable. He was fond of animals would sit for an hour stroking the head of Demon, his great Irish deerhound; but at other times would tease him to a wrath which touched the verge of dangerous.
A few years ago breeders were inclined to mar the beauty of the Deerhound by a too anxious endeavour to obtain great size rather than to preserve the genuine type; but this error has been sufficiently corrected, with the result that symmetry and elegance conjoined with the desired attributes of speed are not sacrificed.
For the admiration of the judge and his attendants, the Moorish hound performed miracles of sinuous agility. With the size of a deerhound the Moor combined the delicate graces of an Italian greyhound. Jan offered no parlor tricks.
Happily the Deerhound has suffered no decline in the favour bestowed upon him for his own sake. The contrary is rather the case, and he is still an aristocrat among dogs, valued for his good looks, the symmetry of his form, his grace and elegance, and even more so for his faithful and affectionate nature.
And with all his heart he hoped for their safety. He did not wonder at their taking their treasures with them. It was the custom of the time to do so, and was quite as sensible as leaving them behind to be stolen. The great deerhound blinked his eyes lazily in the firelight and drew, after a while, the lad's thoughts away from the castle. What should he do with Fleetfoot?
Next in rotation in the chronicles of seizers appears 'Lena, who is still alive, an Australian bitch of great size, courage, and beauty, wire-haired, like a Scotch deerhound. 'Bran, a perfect model of a greyhound. 'Lucifer, combining the beauty, speed, and courage of his parents, 'Bran' and Lena, in a superlative degree.
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