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From the absolute stillness of death, there was now wild excitement among the crooks. "Police! Police!" they shouted to each other as they fled by a doorway to a secret passage. Clutching Hand turned to his first assistant. "You go too," he ordered. The dogs had led us to a strange looking house, and were now baying and leaping up against the door.
Their habitual curving direction soon gave us a broadside view; and a splendid course it was. They ran horizontally, no leap or hop being perceptible. At first the dogs closed rapidly, but for some time afterwards no change in their relative positions took place, each doing his best.
Now Leo grew angry and was about to reply, but I laid my hand upon his arm and said in English "Don't answer; the man is mad." "Bad, you mean," grumbled Leo; "and if he tries to set his cursed dogs on me, I will break his neck."
This is what is called "selection"; and it is by exactly the same process as that by which Seth Wright bred his Ancon sheep, that our breeds of cattle, dogs, and fowls, are obtained.
It might be thought that, seeing we had nearly a hundred grown-up dogs on board, there would be little opportunity for looking after puppies; that this was done, nevertheless, with all the care that could be wished, is due in the first instance to the touching affection of the second in command for the little ones. From the very first moment he was their avowed protector.
Twilight hid the tin cans and ash-barrels, and the dogs slept on the cool pavements. In the doorways soft-eyed Syrian women rocked their babies to drowsy chants. The air revived Aggie. She leaned forward and touched Tish on the shoulder. "After all," she said softly, "if he loves her very much, and there was no other way Do you remember that night she arrived how he looked at her?"
Another great advantage it had was that the dogs would pass singly across fissures, so that the danger of falling through was considerably reduced.
Someone sneaked up outside the tent, slit it open, reached in and lifted out the reel. It was done when we were asleep and " "That's what made the dogs bark!" exclaimed Russ. "Now the question is: Who was it?" He looked at Mr. Pertell as he spoke, and at once a light of understanding came into the eyes of the manager. "You mean ?" the latter began.
And high above the steep trail rose the sharp peaks that shadowed the hundreds of deep gullies: places where the snow never melted, even in summer. And Prince Jan knew that he was following once more the path that his forefathers had trodden. He stopped quickly and lifted his nose high, then he sent forth the great cry of the St. Bernard dogs.
Bartholemy was now greatly in fear that, when his escape was discovered, he would be tracked by bloodhounds, for these dogs were much used by the Spaniards in pursuing escaping slaves or prisoners, and he therefore did not feel safe in immediately making his way along the coast, which was what he wished to do. If the hounds should get upon his trail, he was a lost man.
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