operation when he no th� god s domain longer he would get up and stalk away from them but after a time he grew even to like the children still he was not he would not go up to them on the other hand instead of away at sight of them he waited for them to come to and still later it was noticed that a pleased light came into his eyes when he saw them approaching and that he looked after them with an appearance of curious regret when they left him for other amusements all this was a matter of development and took time next in his regard after the children was judge scott there were two reasons possibly for this first he was evidently a valuable possession of the master and next he was white liked to lie at his feet on the wide porch when he read the newspaper from time to time white with a look or a word � tokens that he recognized white s presence and existence but this was only when the master was not around when the master appeared all other beings ceased to exist so far as white was concerned white allowed all the members of the family to pet him and make much of him but he never gave to them what he gave to the master no caress of theirs could put the love into his throat and try as they would they could never persuade white g him into against them this expression of abandon and surrender of absolute trust he reserved for the master alone in fact he never regarded the members of the family in any other light than possessions of the love master also white had early come to between the family and the servants of the household the latter were afraid of him while he merely refrained from attacking them this because he considered that they were likewise possessions of the master between white and them existed a and no more they cooked for the master and washed the dishes and did other things just as had done up in the they were in short of the household outside the household there was even more for white to learn the master s domain was wide and complex yet it had its and bounds the land itself ceased at the country road outside was the domain of all gods � the roads and streets then inside other fences were the particular of other gods a laws governed all these things and determined conduct yet he did not know the speech of the gods nor was there any way for him to learn save by experience he obeyed his natural impulses until they ran him counter to some law when this had been done a the ood s domain few times he learned the law and after that observed it bat most potent in his education were the of the master s hand the censure of the master s voice because of white s very great love a from the master hurt him far more than any beating gray or beauty smith had ever given him they had hurt only the flesh of him beneath the flesh the spirit had still raged splendid and invincible but with the master the was always too light to hurt the flesh yet it went deeper it was an expression of the master s and white s spirit under it in point of fact the was rarely administered the master s voice was by it white knew whether he did right or not by it he trimmed his conduct and adjusted his actions it was the compass by which he and learned to the manners of a now land and life in the the only animal was the dog all other animals lived in the wild and were when not too formidable lawful spoil for any dogs all his days white had among the live things for food it did not enter his head that in the it was otherwise but this he was to learn early in his residence in valley around the comer of the house in the early morning he came upon a chicken white that had escaped from the chicken yard white s natural impulse was to eat it a couple of bounds a flash of teeth and a frightened and he had in the adventurous fowl it was and fat and tender and white licked his and decided that such fare was good later in the day he chanced upon another stray chicken near the stables one of the ran to the rescue he did not know white s breed so for weapon he took a light whip at the first cut of the whip white left the chicken for the man a club might have stopped white but not a whip silently without he took a second cut in his forward rush and as he leaped for the throat the groom cried out my and staggered backward he dropped the whip and his throat with his arms in consequence his was open to the bone the man was badly frightened it was not so much white s ferocity as it was his silence that the groom still protecting his throat and face with his torn and bleeding arm he tried to retreat to the bam and it would have gone hard with him had not appeared on the scene as she had saved dick s life she now saved the groom s she rushed upon white in wrath she had been right she had known better than the gods all her the god s domain were justified here was the ancient up to his old tricks again the groom escaped into the stables and white backed away before s wicked teeth or presented his shoulder to them and round and round but did not give over as was her wont after a decent 