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Breaking a sheep-dog The shepherd buys a pup His training He refuses to work He chases a swallow and is put to death The shepherd's remorse Bob, the sheep-dog How he was bitten by an adder Period of the dog's receptivity Tramp, the sheep-dog Roaming lost about the country A rage of hunger Sheep-killing dogs Dogs running wild Anecdotes A Russian sheep-dog Caleb parts with Tramp
"And why have you not come in your hunting tartan?" said he, observing the very precise and correct shooting costume of the young man. "Not likely," said Mr. Ogilvie, laughing. "I don't like walking through clouds with bare knees, with a chance of sitting down on an adder or two.
Marie Antoinette shrank back as if an adder had wounded her, and with a flash of wrath her eyes darted in the direction whence the laugh had come. It was from Philip d'Orleans.
By night when the great morass lay in white and sinister tangle under the wild spring moon, when the dark and dreadful swamps were rife with horrible croaks and snaps, the whirring of the wings of waterfowl or the noise of a disturbed puff adder, Philip stretched himself upon the seat of the music-machine and slept through the twilight and the early evening.
And will she cry, do you think for we have no pipes to drown her screams? Ah, but we will manage it another way than that, Hamish! You have no cunning, you old man! There will be no scream when the white adder is seized and caged. But surely no white adder? Oh, sweetheart, you gave me a red rose!
"No," said he, indifferently; "probably a couple of the Prince's mistresses." The word stung me like an adder; and I half rose from my chair, my face suffused and my eyes indignant. "Why, what is the matter?" asked Maximilian; "I hope I have said nothing to offend you."
Behind the chariot came two serpents, ridden by two other youths, dressed like the first riders. All these figures mounted the tribunal in the centre of the hall, and danced round Justice, and after dancing for a while, their balls exploded, and out of the flames, an ox, a lion, an adder, and a Moor's head suddenly appeared, and all of these danced together round the figure of Justice.
They seldom complain of the intrusion of Europeans; on the contrary, they are pleased at their SITTING DOWN, as they call it, on their land: they do not perceive that their own circumstances are thereby sadly altered for the worse in most cases; that their means of subsistence are gradually more and more limited, and their numbers rapidly diminished: in short, in the simplicity of their hearts, they take the frozen adder in their bosom, and it stings them to death.
Why, one day when Thad was walking with him over some newly cleared ground, old Joe suddenly clutched his arm, drawing him back and pointing to a little but ugly ground adder that lay in the path, instantly said: "Man mus' watch as well as pray!" And no one could manage the 'coon pack as well as Black Joe.
Baron Levy is still Baron Levy the millionaire; but I doubt if at heart he be not more acutely miserable than Randal Leslie the usher. For Levy is a man who has admitted the fiercer passions into his philosophy of life; he has not the pale blood and torpid heart which allow the scotched adder to dose away its sense of pain.
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