RAB AND HIS FRIENDS 



muzzle black as night, his mouth blacker 

 than any night, a tooth or two being all he 

 had gleaming out of his jaws of darkness. 

 His head was scarred with the records of old 

 wounds, a sort of series of fields of battle 

 all over it ; one eye out, one ear cropped as 

 close as was Archbishop Leighton's father's ; 

 the remaining eye had the power of two ; 

 and above it, and in constant communication 

 with it, was a tattered rag of an ear, which 

 was for ever unfurling itself, like an old flag ; 

 and then that bud of a tail, about one inch 

 long, if it could in any sense be said to be 

 long, being as broad as long the mobility, 

 the instantaneousness of that bud were very 

 funny and surprising, and its expressive 

 twinklings and winkings, the intercommuni- 

 cations between the eye, the ear, and it, were 

 of the oddest and swiftest. 



Rab had the dignity and simplicity of great 

 size ; and having fought his way all along 

 the road to absolute supremacy, he was as 

 mighty in his own line as Julius Caesar or the 



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