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sight. I could see the jumping of his heart on 

 his ribs, and the gleam of his yellow eye. When 

 the dog was wholly baulked by the water trick 

 it was comical to see : — he could not sit still, 

 but rocked up and down in glee, and reared on 

 his hind feet to get a better view of the slow- 

 plodding hound. With mouth opened nearly 

 to his ears, though not at all winded, he panted 

 noisily for a moment, or rather he laughed 

 gleefully just as a dog laughs by grinning and 

 panting. 



Old Scarface wriggled in huge enjoyment as 

 the hound puzzled over the trail so long that 

 when he did find it, it was so stale he could 

 barely follow it, and did not feel justified in 

 tonguing on it at all. 



As soon as the hound was working up the 

 hill, the fox quietly went into the woods. I 

 had been sitting in plain view only ten feet 

 away, but I had the wind and kept still and 

 the fox never knew that his life had for 

 twenty minutes been in the power of the foe 

 he most feared. Ranger would also have 

 passed me as near as the fox, but I spoke to 

 him, and with a little nervous start he quit 

 the trail and looking sheepish lay down by 

 my feet. 



This little comedy was played with variations 



