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The landlord greeted her rather sullenly, his eyes heavy and red from lack of sleep. "Morning," he said, without attempting to rise. "Lie down thar, Towser; the lady don't likely want yer nosin' around. Yer a bit late fer breakfast; it's ginerally over with by eight o'clock." "I am not at all hungry," she answered. "Is it far to the post-office?" "'Bout two blocks, ter yer right.
Somehow she had grown tired of trying to keep shoe-strings from breaking, and aprons from being torn, and if she was just home with Towser, such things did not matter; as to her going to school, her father did not seem to care. "Guess there's no hurry 'bout filling so small a head," he would sometimes say when Jerusha pleaded for school with Martha's eyes assenting.
Then, showing his teeth, he growled menacingly and bounded through the woods, Dick & Co. following pell-mell. "Towser knows that his enemy is still near!" called Harry exultantly. "Come on, fellows! We'll catch that sneak!" A bull-dog's strong point is not his scent. He led the boys to the roadway, then halted, growling, plainly at fault.
Towser Dog to come and look after the visitor. "The next time you want to fool anybody you'd better find a foolish little pig, instead of an old hog like me, who knows that there's some mischief in the air when the wolves get to acting like one's best friends, Mrs. Hog said, as Mr. Towser took Mr. Wolf by the throat to teach him better manners.
Her mouth was rose-red and tolerable small, but always ready for a smile, and she was a slim, active creature, a towser for work, yet full of the joy of life and ready enough for a mite of pleasure if it came her way.
It's a safe place, anyway," Prescott replied. A few minutes later the "Scalp-hunter" touched lightly on the beach in front of camp. Towser greeted them with a joyous bark. "So you've been watching the race instead of the camp, have you?" demanded Tom, eyeing the dog in mock reproach. "Oh, but I'm tired!" muttered Darrin, after they had beached the canoe. "This green grass looks inviting."
"That pup's in trouble," declared Tom sagely. "Come along, fellows! Bring the lantern, Dick!" Six boys, headed by Dick with the lantern, went to meet the bull-dog. They came upon Towser, growling in a most excited manner, threshing something about him in the bushes as he came toward them. "Hold still, boy!" commanded Harry. "What is it, old chap?" Then he came upon the dog.
He was coatless, stretched out face downward, with Towser still camped across his shoulder, and the dog's teeth still fastened in his shirt. "Come and call this measly dog off!" ordered Fred, in a surly tone. "This is a fine reward that I get for trying to do you fellows a friendly turn!" Dick, Dave and Tom were the first to get within range and obtain a glimpse of the extraordinary scene.
Towser, I may as well read them to you now," and she drew out from beneath her wing a much soiled piece of paper, on which was printed the following lines: He was just a common dog, you see, With no particular line Of ancestry to mark him out As a well-bred creature fine.
That afternoon Towser was bitten in the garden by a dragon about the size of a rabbit, which he had tried to chase, and the next morning all the papers were full of the wonderful "winged lizards" that were appearing all over the country.
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