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growls indeed, my position had become distinctly 

 uncomfortable. Then I suddenly "remembered having 

 heard that if two dogs are allowed to come together 

 without their master being present, they will generally 

 get to agree. I therefore hastily shut them both into 

 one room, and went out into the fields ! 



When in the course of an hour's time I came home 

 again, each dog was reposing in a corner the image of 

 peace ; there was no further fracas, and there has 

 never been any trouble since. Later on, indeed, both 

 became good friends, and often played together, but 

 it was a risky experiment and grim forebodings had 

 beset me on that walk ! But having occasion to 

 apply the same cure in another case, I met with the 

 same success again. 



