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But no hint of the size of the redskin company could be gained; and, when the biggest brother had climbed from the lean-to to the ridge-pole of the roof and his mother had peered from the lesser height of the attic window, they could not even catch a glimpse of the top of a tepee, of a skulking wolf-dog, or of the shaggy coat of a grazing pony.
"Of all the dogs I ever see, Bart plays the most careful game, but out on the trail, Satan" here he sent the stallion into the sweeping lope "Bart knows more'n you an' me put together, so we'll do what he says." For answer, Satan lengthened a little into his stride. As for the wolf-dog, he went off like a black bolt into the eye of the wind, streaking it west to hunt out the easiest course.
In a flash he was upon his feet, his dark face tense with action, his right hand gripping at something in his belt as he bent toward the figure in the center of the rock. His posture was that of an animal ready to spring. Close beside him gleamed the white fangs of the wolf-dog. The girl leaned over and twisted her fingers in the tawny hair that bristled on the dog's neck.
In the forest the wolf-dog would have interested him to the exclusion of everything else, and he would have looked upon him as another Netah or a wild wolf. But in his present surroundings the idea of fighting was the last to possess him.
"Shoot the damned wolf for God's sake for my sake!" Still the wolf-dog drew the girl in that snarling progress towards the door. "Kate!" cried her father, and the agony in his voice made it young and sent it ringing through the room. "Will you go out to wander between heaven and hell on a night like this?" "I'm not going!" she answered, "I won't leave you but oh Dad!
The girl moved away from him as if led by an invisible hand, and now she stood at the extremity of the porch. He followed her. "Do you hear?" she cried, turning to him. "What is it?" asked the doctor. "It is he! Don't you understand?" "Barry? Yes! But what does the whistling mean; is it for his wolf-dog?" "I don't know," she answered quickly. "All I understand is that it is beautiful.
"We must trail bats now, Joceline our time of shouldering them is past. It skills not striving against the stream the devil rules the roast, and makes our slaves our tutors." At this moment another auxiliary rushed out of the thicket to the knight's assistance. It was a large wolf-dog, in strength a mastiff, in form and almost in fleetness a greyhound.
At last the howl of a wolf-dog cracked the silence from the direction of Forty-Mile. The weird sound swelled with all the pathos of a breaking heart, then died away in a long-drawn sob. 'Well I be danged! Bettles turned up the collar of his mackinaw jacket and stared about him helplessly. 'It's a gloryus game yer runnin', Kid, cried Lon McFane.
Later on Mr. Davitt's feelings were less calm and his language less measured, mild and sober; as when, for instance, he pictured to his excited auditors "the wolf-dog of Irish vengeance leaping across the Atlantic to redress and avenge the wrongs of Ireland." Mr.
They used to have drawing competitions, of which Larry was, of course, the promoter, in the old schoolroom, during the long winter evenings. Larry always had a pencil in his hand, and was renowned as an artist of horses and hounds, and Finn's wolf-dog, Bran, besides wielding a biting pen as a caricaturist.
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