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whether it would ring without being touched

I hurriedly got down and pulled the knob, feeling ashamed the next

moment for my act seemed to have awakened the sleepy place There was a

trery-voiced bell which sounded hollow

and echoing all over the place; there was the rattling of chains, as

half a dozen dogs seean baying furiously, with the result that the horse threw up his head

and uttered a loud neigh Then there was a tra, as of some one in

very heavy nailed boots over a paved yard, and after the rattling of

bolts, the clang of a great iron bar, and the sharp click of a big lock,

a sour-looking ate and then the other, each

fold uttering a dissatisfied creak as if disliking to be disturbed

The horse wanted no driving, but walked right into the yard and across

to a large open shed, while five dogs--there were not six--barked and

bayed at e Newfoundland--

this was before the days of Saint Bernards--a couple of spotted

coach-dogs, a great hound of so like a terrier grown out of knowledge, and a curly black

retriever, each of which had a great green kennel, and they tugged so

furiously at their chains that it see their

houses across the yard in an attack upon the stranger