15 " hoarhound 10 " 1.50
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$7.95

"Not so bad," he muttered, bending over the figures. "I wonder if any
of my neighbours who harvest the fields average as well at this season.
I'll wager they don't. That's pretty fair! Some days I don't make it,
and then when a consignment of seeds go or ginseng is wanted the cash
comes in right properly. I could waste half of it on a girl and yet save
money. But where is the woman who would be content with half? She'd want
all and fret because there wasn't more. Blame that dog!"

He put the book in his pocket, prepared and ate his supper, heaped a
plate generously, placed it on the floor beneath the table, and set away
the food that remained.

"Not that you deserve it," he said to space. "You get this in honour
of your distinguished name and the faithfulness with which you formerly
have lived up to its import. If you hadn't been a dog with more sense
than some men, I wouldn't take your going back on me now so hard. One
would think an animal of your intelligence might realize that you would
get as much of a dose as I. Would she permit you to eat from a plate on
the kitchen floor? Not on your life, Belshazzar! Frozen scraps around
the door for you! Would she allow you to sleep across the foot of the
bed? Ho, ho, ho! Would she have you tracking on her floor? It would be
the barn, and growling you didn't do at that. If I'd serve you right,
I'd give you a dose and allow you to see how you like it. But it's
cutting off my nose to spite my face, as the old adage goes, for
whatever she did to a dog, she'd probably do worse to a man. I think
not!"

He entered the front room and stood before a long shelf on which were
arranged an array of partially completed candlesticks carved from wood.
There were black and white walnut, red, white, and golden oak, cherry
and curly maple, all in original designs. Some of them were oddities,
others were failures, but most of them were unusually successful. He
selected one of black walnut, carved until the outline of his pattern
was barely distinguishable. He was imitating the trunk of a tree with
the bark on, the spreading, fern-covered roots widening for the base,
from which a vine sprang. Near the top was the crude outline of a big
night moth climbing toward the light. He stood turning this stick with
loving hands and holdi