166 Little Byron 



run over the little fellow, he started at once to help 

 him. 



A crowd had already begun to gather about the 

 place. l Send for the Bergh people,' said one man, 

 helplessly. ' Get the policeman to put a ball in him,' 

 remarked another. 



These and other suggestions, equally foolish or 

 brutal, were cut short by the gentleman lifting the 

 little dog in his arms and quietly taking him away. 

 The poor sufferer, weak and trembling as he was, 

 nestled close to his new protector, trying feebly to 

 lick his hands, as though to show his gratitude at 

 having found at last, what was so needful to his 

 happiness and to his very life, a sincere human friend. 



It was the turning-point in little Byron's career. 

 The ill-fortune that had hitherto pursued him fol- 

 lowed him no further. Snatched from an impending 

 and cruel death, he was carefully nursed back to 

 health and comeliness, and found in the home of his 

 new benefactor the happiness and protection that had 

 previously been denied him. The wrong and cruelty, 

 the harsh words and brutal deeds, that had been 



