Further Adventures of Lad by Albert Payson Terhune
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the window; his mate hanging from his iron jaws.
Yes, it was a ridiculous thing to attempt. No dog, with thrice Lad's muscular strength, could have accomplished the impossibility of springing out through that high, narrow window, carrying a weight of fifty pounds between his teeth. Lad's leap did not carry him half the distance he had aimed for. Back to the floor he fell, Lady with him. Maddened by pain and by choking and by stark terror, Lady had not the wit to realize what Lad was attempting. All she knew was that he had seized her roughly by the neck, and had leaped in air with her; and had then brought her bangingly down upon the torturing hot boards. And her panic was augmented by delirious rage. At Lad's face she flew, snarling murderously. One slash of her curving eyetooth laid bare his cheek. Then she drove for his throat. Lad stood stock still. His only move was to interpose his shaggy shoulder to her ravening jaws. And, deep into the fur and skin and flesh of his shoulder her furious teeth shore their way. It would have been child's play for him to have shaken her off and to have leaped to safety, alone, through the sash-less window. Yet he stood where he was; his sorrowful eyes looking tenderly down upon the maddened youngster who was tearing into him so |
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