Hooj Beats 



Personally I had never meant to pat Roysterer 

 at all, after the sound of his voice, until I had 

 known him quite a good deal more than a few 

 minutes; and so when the door was pushed open 

 and Roysterer, followed by six couples of assorted 

 canines, all sprang upon Rawdon with loving cries, 

 then suddenly saw me, I felt a strange feeling of 

 diffidence about accepting Rawdon's hospitable 

 wave of invitation to enter. Roysterer, being the 

 largest and in a sense the leader of the others, 

 seemed particularly upset and conscious of his 

 position, and stared at me so long with his back 

 roached and teeth bared that I felt quite uncom- 

 fortable until Rawdon gave him a sound kick, 

 which, being a kind of passport for me, we went in 

 without further annoyance. I felt quite import- 

 ant for a while after that; and later on I could see 

 that Roysterer really would have liked to lick my 

 hand. It was like being passed through the fire- 

 lines by the chief of police, after some surly police- 

 man had pushed you in the shirt front with a fat, 

 smoky hand. 



It was already morning before Rawdon and I 

 stopped talking; and the last thing I remember 

 after Rawdon showed me my room, was his telling 

 me he would call me in the morning, and the next 

 thing, just after I had gotten the covers really 

 tight around me was his calling me. When I first 



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