h.

Now, you must know that after a battle fought and victory won, it was
Grumbo's wont to indulge himself in a little brief repose, which he
would take stretched out on the ground, with his shaggy head laid,
lion-like, on his extended paws--betraying, in both attitude and look, a
sober self-satisfaction so entire as made it seem that for him the world
had nothing more to offer. But this morning, notwithstanding the
successful, even brilliant, winding up of their great adventure, our
war-dog, instead of unbending as usual, held grimly aloof from the rest
of the party, still seated on his tail, to which he had retired,
snubbed, in the very flush of victory, by his ungrateful leader.
Evidently our canine hero had got his nose knocked out of joint.
Nevertheless, he failed not to maintain a wary though distant watch over
the movements of the young Indian, whom, being the sort of game they had
always up to this moment hunted to the bloody end, he could not but
regard with a jealous and distrustful eye. From time to time, by way of
giving him a piece of his mind, he would cast side-long at his master a
look of severe reproach, unqualified disapprobation. Plain was it that
to his dogship's way of thinking it was a very bungling fashion of doing
business, thus to suffer this red barbarian to pass from under their
hands, untouched by tomahawk or tooth--betraying, as it did, a weakness
of feeling altogether unbeseeming warriors of the first blood like
themselves. Therefore did his excellency doggedly keep his tail, nor
would he unbend, so far as even to sniff at--though hungry as a
nigger--the raw meat which, without measure, his master had laid before
him.

Observing the offended and distant demeanor of his comrade-in-arms, and
knowing that he sometimes showed a civilized preference for cooked meat
over raw, Burl roasted one whole side of the buck and threw it before
him, hot and smoking from the embers, hoping that this might win him
over and tempt him into a more sociable and gracious humor. But his
dogship had been too deeply offended to be so easily appeased; and let
the savory fumes of the smoking dainty curl round and round his watering
chops as temptingly as they might, he would not deign to stoop and
taste. Seeing that he still stood upon the reserve--sat on his
tail--Burl at length began to have some misgivings as to whether he had
dealt altogether fairly by his right-hand man, to snub him as he had in
the very moment