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empliatically ordered him out ; but the A\dld-looking 

 little dog heeded neither solicitation nor command, 

 and maintained possession of his corner. 



'^Get out/' again said the sentinel, gently push- 

 ing the disobedient dog with the butt end of liis 

 musket. ^' You shan't stay there." 



The action of the soldier and the contents of the 

 sentry-box had been seen by a passer-by. That 

 man stopped and stared. The contention between 

 the soldier and the dog continued, and the dog 

 showed his teeth to the butt of the musket, and 

 stoutly refused to budge an inch. Another man 

 stojDpcd and stared ; others, who were in the act of 

 passing, seeing the starers, stopped and stared too, 

 till a dense crowd of men, women, and children 

 formed a half circle round the rear of the soldier, 

 and some one or other uttered that fatal and often 

 misplaced word, as far as poor faithful dogs are 

 concerned, ^^mad." 



In an instant little girls and women began hur- 

 riedly to run away, — the words, ^^ A mad dog," were 

 shouted from one to the other, — men and boys 

 crowded up in the hope of hunting or killing some- 

 thing, whether mad or not, — and a cruel cry came 



from the crowd urging the sentinel ^' to use his 



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