Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 256
pping and snapping, Adolphus has beenknown to yawn in the face of his assailant,quite deliberately and very politely, as agentleman of good breeding might whenbored by an excessive display of emotion.Usually the dog mysteriously halts withina foot or so of those calm yellow eyes anddescribes a… … HE DRAGS A FIVE-FOOT SNAKE INTO THEMUSIC-ROOM past his cowering foe into a mysterious spaceundesecrated by blustering dogs. A few dogs there have been who have failedto halt at the hypnotic command of thoseyellow eyes. Then there came a lightning-like flash of fur through the air, and Adol- 853 854…
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