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Nice doggie! Nice, nice doggie! Please let go!" Gr-r-r-r-r! But Towser didn't attempt to bite as yet. For a bull-dog, and considering how fully he was master of the field at present, Towser displayed amazing good nature. Only when young Ripley moved did the four-footed policeman of the camp utter that warning growl. "Nice doggie!" coaxed Fred pleadingly. "Good old fellow!"
Harry, with a remembrance of yesterday's events, called Towser, saying sternly: "Stay right here, boy, and watch. Maybe you'll get the rest of Rip's shirt to-day." "And maybe he won't," chuckled Dave. "That's what I call holding out false hopes to a dog. Rip won't venture within five miles of here to-day. Yet perhaps Towser will bag some other game for us."
"Hold this canvas up," Dave Darrin ordered sharply, and Ripley, knowing that Towser was eyeing him, obeyed. Inside crawled Darrin, shaking each of his friends in turn and calling to them. "I can't wake 'em! I can't get 'em to speak," reported Darrin, crawling out again, his face white with anguish. "I'm afraid they've been " "Yes," nodded Ripley, in a hoarse voice. "They're dead!"
"Bow-wow!" said Towser; "I don't care a straw for the big gate. I would jump over it if I was younger, and I would squeeze myself through the bars if the space was only wide enough. Bow-wow, who cares for the big gate?" "Go round the other side," said Flora, "and I will let you in." Towzer wagged his tail, and started off, as if he meant to go round, but he was only making believe.
I don't have anybody to play wiv me half the time, 'cept Towser; an' yeste'day I asked Towser if he wanted you, an' Towser said 'bow, an' that means 'yes." "There! you see we all want you, Ralph," said Mrs. Burnham, smiling; "the entire family wants you. Now, you will come, won't you?"
In the darkness it was not easy to make out what ailed Towser. But Prescott came closer to the dog with the lantern. "Towser has his foot caught in a steel trap. I'm afraid his leg is broken," quivered Hazelton, as he threw himself on the ground beside his pet. "Hold still, boy! Let me take it off of you."
"Willingly, sir," Dick agreed, "now that you have had opportunity to look into all the evidence that we found. Harry, will you do the honors?" Smiling slightly, Hazelton stepped forward to speak to Towser. That four-footed guardian of the camp displayed some resentment at first over the idea of letting go of Fred's shirt.
Towser ran to his master's assistance, and Carlo, without waiting for his sentence, jumped through the open window into the garden, flew across the lawn with the speed of a greyhound, and quickly put forty long miles between himself and Peacock Hall.
He is such a splendid dog, I should like a fine, uncommon, grand name out of some of Mr. Hargrove's learned books." "Oh don't, Regina! Be pitiful, and say Teazer, Tiger, Towser, but don't throw the sublime nomenclature of the classics literally to the dogs!" "Now, mother, I protest against your infringement of Uncle Peyton's accorded rights.
So he tried it, but, all of a sudden, he cried out: "Ouch! Oh, my! Oh, dear me! Oh, hum, suz dud!" "What's the matter," asked the dog, looking around. "A fish bit my toe," exclaimed the rabbit. "Oh, I guess you only hit it on a stone," said Towser. "Fish are too frightened to bite any one. Come on, strike out and swim as I do."
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