Looking Out I Saw That Turk, The More Savage Of The Two Black
Dogs, Was In The Yard And Could Not Get Out Over The High Board Fence.
Cressy Was Probably On Guard That Day, And Sentry Over The Prisoners
Who Had Brought Water.
The dog must have followed him in and then
managed to get left.
Hal looked up at me, and for one instant kept perfectly still, waiting
to see what I would do. His big brown eyes were almost human in their
beseeching, and plainly said, "You cannot have forgotten - you will
surely let me out!" And let him out I did. I opened the doors leading
to the yard, and almost pushing me over he rushed to the black dog
with great leaps and the most blood-curdling growls, jumping straight
over him, then around him, then over him again and again, and so like
a whirlwind, the poor black beast was soon crazy, for snap as fast as
he might, it was ever at the clear, beautiful air. Hal was always just
out of reach.
After he had worried the dog all he wanted to Hal. proceeded to
business. With a greyhound trick, he swung himself around with great
force and knocked the big dog flat upon the ground, and holding him
down with his two paws he pulled out mouthful after mouthful of long
hair, throwing it out of his mouth right and left. If the dog
attempted to raise his big head Hal was quick to give a wicked snap
that made the head fall down again.
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