Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 52
one jump;and, clumsy as he looks, there is nothing that runswhich can catch him, if he gets twenty yards start, as if propelled by a single kick, then stop and look.The wolf knows that the game is up. I once sawa wolf sit down and look hard at the rabbit, and sniffhim longingly; and the jack, not… … BUT I WAS NT IN THE SADDLE. I WENT ON. —not even a greyhound. Away he flies, like an oldfelt hat flopping along the ground before the wind;and you think that the hound will catch him in notime ; but he does nt. Jack keeps just about twojumps ahead, and will run one mile, or two, or allday, just as…
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