Owd Bob The Grey Dog of Kenmuir Author:Alfred Ollivant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Methuen Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Dogs Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Dogs Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Nature / Animals Pets / Dogs / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of th... more »e original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V FIRST BLOOD and I, Wullie, you and I. You for me ; I for you -- it's clear ordered." And so the puppy seemed to think ; for he resigned himself forthwith, recognising perhaps his destiny. Thenceforth Adam M'Adam and his Red Wull grew as it were together. Theirs was the comradeship of a common misanthropy; jaundiced their outlook on the world ; genial their mutual surliness. The two became inseparable; for the wee dog had transferred his fealty utterly whole-hearted, and bristled defiance over his new lord as he had done over the lately dead. Once even in the Sylvester Arms he attacked Long Kirby with a cold-blooded fearless fury that routed his big antagonist and afforded Tammas and his brother topers a side-shaking topic for a week. Many were the stories David told at Kenmuir of the truculent mite ; of his savagery, his devotion to his master, his already deathless hate for him (David). Very soon this mutual antipathy led to the inevitable event. For on a morning the boy woke to find himself pinned murderously by the nose, and a smutty red face scowling into his. He yelled, and freed himself with difficulty. Red Wull, bent on blood, attacked again. A scuffle ensued, and in the middle M'Adam burst in, all disarrayed. Straightway he flew into a frenzy, caught up the puppy, clouted David up and down ; and finally, as a more effectual penance, imposed perpetual interdict on th...« less