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"Hold up, good dogs!" cried Harry, and as he spoke away went Shot and Chase the red dog, some three yards ahead, jumped on the wall, and, in the act of bounding over it, saw Grouse at point beyond.
"No Le Boeuf!" "That Frenchman and you kept the doctor a week to look after him!" exclaimed Holcomb indignantly. "Yes. That was the reason he hunted for me." The men crowded about the speaker, the women drawing closer, the old dog closest of all. Dinsmore, who was seated on a stump just outside the firelight, listened eagerly. He had heard the story before, but he wanted every detail of it again.
Religion, indeed! If it were not for the rascally law, my pit would fill better on Sundays than any other time. Who would go to church when they could come to my pit? Religion! why, the parsons themselves come to my pit; and I have now a letter in my pocket from one of them, asking me to send him a dog. 'Well, then, politics, said I. 'Politics!
Isabel and the dog were at play together. Among the varied accomplishments possessed by Tommie, the capacity to take his part at a game of hide-and-seek was one.
The bitterness of the dreaded task was deepened also by contrast with the gambols of his cousin Billy, who was hunting rats with Growler amid the last sheaves of the stack bottom. The piercing shrieks of Billy, as he clapped his hands in murderous glee, mingled now and again with the barking of the dog.
He sank down and grassed. And after they had sat thus for another half-hour grassing and growling and angling and sensing one another, it turned out that all that he was trying to say was to ask if she would marry him. And of course she said yes. XIII. Weejee the Pet Dog. An Idyll of the Summer We were sitting on the verandah of the Sopley's summer cottage.
In the middle a woman is setting a dog on to two beasts, and behind them there is a man blowing a horn. At the sides are two quatrefoils, set in which are figures of a man attacking another man drinking, and one man driving another away. The sculpture over the south door was destroyed in the fire of 1840, but a careful restoration of it has been made.
Get back to your corner," she said coaxingly. The animal turned tail, and with the obedience of a tame dog went back into the darkness and lay down on his mat of sheepskin, while Aasta, drawing her cloak about her, slipped silently out into the clear twilight and faced the keen east wind.
Looking first at the magistrate, then at the crowd, as if to impress them also, the old man told in a high-pitched, excited voice all the details his seeing Davy Allen pass in front of his house last Friday afternoon, his missing the dog, his finding the block of wood down the road beside the pasture fence, his over-hearing the squire's talk right here in the store, his calling on Mrs.
Not very long before his death, he mentioned this, among other particulars of his life, which he was kindly communicating to me; and he described this early friend, 'Harry Hervey, thus: 'He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you call a dog HERVEY, I shall love him.
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