both sides of the shoulders with hands that against the grain of the hair and that made slight pushing forward these were so many suggestions also their effect was for began to growl very softly deep down in his throat there was a correspondence in between the and the movements of the man s hands the growl rose in the throat with the of each movement and down to start up afresh with the beginning of the next movement the end of each movement was the accent of the the movement ending abruptly and the growling rising with a jerk this was not without its effect on white the hair began to rise on his neck and across the shoulders tim gave a final forward and stepped back again as the that carried forward died down he continued to go forward of his own in a swift run then white struck a cry of startled admiration went up he had covered the distance and gone in more like a cat than a dog and with the same swiftness he had with his and leaped clear the was bleeding back of one ear from a in his thick neck he gave no sign did not even but turned and followed after white the clinging death the display on both sides the quickness of the one and the of the other had excited the spirit of the crowd and the men were making new and increasing original again and yet again white sprang in and got away untouched and still his strange foe followed after him without too great haste not slowly but deliberately and in a sort of way there was purpose in his method � something for him to do that he was intent upon doing and from which nothing could his whole every action was stamped with this purpose it puzzled white never had he seen such a dog it had no hair protection it was soft and easily there was no thick mat of fur to white s teeth as they were often baffled by dogs of his own breed each time that his teeth struck they sank easily into the yielding flesh while the animal did not seem able to defend itself another thing was that it made no such as he had been accustomed to with the other dogs he had fought beyond a growl or a the dog took its silently and never did it flag in its pursuit of him not that was slow he could turn and whirl swiftly enough but white was never white there was puzzled too he had never fought before with a dog with which he could not dose the desire to dose had always been mutual but here was a dog that kept at a distance dancing and here and there and all about and when it did get its teeth into him it did not hold on but let go instantly and darted away again but white could not get at the soft of the throat the stood too short while its massive jaws were an added protection white darted in and out while s wounds increased both sides of his neck and head were and he f but showed no signs of being disconcerted he continued his pursuit though once for the moment he came to a full stop and at the men who looked on at the same time his stump of a tail as an expression of his to fight in that moment white was in upon him and out in passing his trimmed remnant of an ear with a slight of anger took up the pursuit again running on the inside of the white was making and striving to fasten his deadly grip on white s throat the missed by a hair s breadth and cries of praise went up as white doubled suddenly out of danger in the opposite direction the death s the time went by white still danced on and leaping in and out and ever damage and still the with grim toiled after him sooner or later he would accomplish his purpose get the grip that would win the battle in the meantime he accepted all the punishment the other could deal his of ears had become his neck and shoulders were in a score of places and his very lips were cut and bleeding � all from those lightning that were beyond his and guarding time and again white had attempted to knock off his feet but the difference in their height was too great was too too close to the ground white tried the trick once too often the chance came in one of his quick and counter he caught with head turned away as he whirled more slowly his shoulder was exposed white drove in upon it but his own shoulder was high above while he struck with such force that his carried him on across over the other s body for the first time in his fighting history men saw white lose his footing his body turned a half in the air and he would have landed on his back had he not twisted still in the air in the effort to bring his feet to the earth as it was he struck heavily on his side the next instant white he was on his feet but in that instant s teeth closed on his throat it was not a good grip being too low down toward the chest but held on white sprang to his feet and tore wildly around trying to shake off the s body it made him frantic this clinging dragging weight it bound his movements his freedom it was like a trap and all his instinct resented it and against it it was a mad revolt for several minutes he was to all insane the life that was in him took charge of him the wiu to exist of his 