Page 49 - Jack's victory and other stories about dogs

CHAPTER VI.

THE &EVGLtTTIOiff| THE FIGHT FOR THE SUPREMACY;
ASTER THE BATTLE; JACK'S VICTORY.

gpMOTHING- mare of importance happened

during our journey that day, Arkadik

™ managed to keep her chosen place beside

Jack, although, of course, she could not have
done it without the connivance of the driver;

and after this little fight we got on famously.

But when we halted for the night, and the
dogs were unharnessed, the feelings which had

been excited to fever-heat in the breasts of the

iiour dogs broke out in the most angry manner.

Erebus* incensed to the last degree, trembling

with fnry, his head up, his eyes dilated, his ears
stuck sharply forward, Ids, Bair bristling all over

his body, his tail curling proudly* made directly