Part 91 (1/2)

”Here, hi! ugly!” he cried, breaking into thetoward hi bark ”There; it's very stupid of me, but just you take that and be off into the woods, and if you co made a fierce snap at the bone, upon which its sharp teeth clapped, and then with a growl bounded off, but stopped and came back, dropped the bone in the sand, looked up at Toain

”Why, halloo! what's the ot another adder-bite in the nose?”

”O!” ainst the hand Then it started away, barked sharply, turned, and looked at To uttered an eager bark

”Co ran to him directly, and after a momentary hesitation Tom took hold of its head, and held up itsoffered

”Well, we seeood friends,” said Too; ”but I don't see anything wrong

Besides, it isn't swollen”

The dog barked loudly now, and started away for a few yards

”Here, here! Don't leave your sandy bone,” cried To ran back ”Here, catch hold”

Then there was a snap ain directly, for the poor brute to throw up its ive forth another piteous howl

”Oh, I say, don't do that,” cried To

”Why, what's the matter with you? Mouth sore? Toothache?”

There was another burst of barking, and the dog ran on a few yards, and looked back to bark again

”I don't understand your language, old chap,” cried Tom ”What do you want? Found a rabbit round here?”

Another eager bark, and the dog pricked up its ears, and looked ht, coood to leave”

The dog rushed at the bone as Toain, dropped it, and barked Then, as the boy advanced, it seized the bone and ran on farther, to go through the same performance

”Very well, I'll come,” cried Tom ”Bound to say he has found an adder soh I should hardly think there are any about now,” and he set off at a trot after the dog, whose wholethe road, stopping every now and then to drop the bone and bark excitedly; twice over it left the meat and ran on, but at a word it came back, picked it up, and went on as before, with tail and ears erect, looking as full of business as could be

”Isn't this very stupid?”brute He's going to changewith him--that's what it is Pete has knocked him about once too often Wonder what uncle would say if I took such an object back

And old David!”

He laughed heartily as he pictured the gardener's disgust, but so's show of affection

At this point he stopped, for they had gone so beside the fir-wood, and to try how the animal would behave, he called it

The bone was dropped, and the ani itself to be patted, and then juer than pleasant