Wully 



of the night seeking for his wretched idol. 

 The next day he continued his search, he 

 crossed and recrossed the river many times. 

 He watched and smelt everyone that came over, 

 and with significant shrewdness he sought un- 

 ceasingly in the neighboring taverns for his 

 master. The next day he set to work system- 

 atically to smell everyone that might cross the 

 ferry. 



The ferry makes fifty trips a day, with an 

 average of one hundred persons a trip, yet never 

 once did Wully fail to be on the gang-plank 

 and smell every pair of legs that crossed — 5,000 

 pairs, 10 000 legs that day did Wully examine 

 after his own fashion. And the next day, and 

 the next, and all the week he kept his post, and 

 seemed indifferent to feeding himself. Soon 

 starvation and worry began to tell on him. 

 He grew thin and ill-tempered. No one could 

 touch him, and any attempt to interfere with 

 his daily occupation of leg-smelling roused him 

 to desperation. 



Day after day, week after week Wully 

 watched and waited for his master, who never 

 came. The ferry men learned to respect 



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