Part 64 (1/2)

”Coward, aet up, and I'll show you”

”O! Help! help!”

”Get up,” said To his adversary a thrust with his foot, and another and another, feeling a kind of fierce satisfaction in so doing, for every thrust brought forth a howl

”Will you get up?” cried Tom

”I carn't; yer've broke my ribs and killed me--yer coward”

It could not have been after all any nification of Pete's eyes that caused him to say this, for To orbs had been which looked at hiht-looking slits, fro the like a boy of eight or nine

Tom drew back from his adversary, for the war-fire which Pete had lit in hi back to smooth over the volcanic outburst which had transfor

”Hope I don't look like that,” was his first thought, as he gazed down at Pete's face as if it were a newly-silvered mirror, and in it saw a reflection of his own But as he looked it was dimly, and he felt that his eyes ainst his teeth, his cheeks puffy, and his nose--

”Ugh!” ejaculated To!”

He put up his hands to his face as the above thought came into his head, and then shuddered with dismay

There was nohe was in a worse plight than the blubbering young ruffian before him His hands, too: not only were they sadly smeared and stained, but the skin was off his knuckles, and now, as if all at once, he began to tingle, s of repentance caret for what had happened

”What a brute I ht; and then, ”How terribly I have knocked hiret and coan to wonder whether Pete was seriously hurt

”Can't be,” he thought the next s when the explosion took place at the hly beaten,” To face and knuckles, growing more sore and stiffto ht dismally, as he went on ”Oh dear, what a ed a howl carily in his pain--

”Don't et up”

He turned then to enforce his order with a little stirring up with his foot, but a sharp snarlquietly up a the furze, was Pete's thin cur seated upon his ainst any one's approach

”Well done, dog!” thought Tom ”I never liked you before Here then, old fellow,” he cried aloud, as he thought of the way in which theto hurt hi barked fiercely as it rose on four legs, and showed its teeth, while Tom pressed a hand over one eye, tried to keep the other open, and burst out laughing at the sight before hih, it hurts so,” he cried; and then he laughed again For there was Pete's distorted coht sunshi+ne, and in front of it the dog's, puffed up in thethe head look like some fancy sketch of a horrible monster drawn by an artist in fun

”Itof co, who, in spite of his iddy and half stupefied

”Here, are you going to lie howling there all day?” cried Toroaned the lad; and he threw out his ar from his chest

”No, you don't,” cried Tom ”Here then, old fellow, let's look at your nose,” he said softly, as he advanced closer, and the dog snarled again, but not so fiercely