hairy, like the ears of a dog, and the next moment I saw two eyes,
red as fire, glaring at me out of the darkness. I thought it could
not be anything else but a dog, so I gave it a kick and sent it flying
into the barn below, where I heard it fall with a heavy thud.
Wfeen I had foddered the horse, I went into the barn and took
the handle of an old rake to chase the dog out with. I looked
and searched, but there was no dog or any trace of it, although therc \vasn't a hole big enough for a squirrel to escape through. I went up into the hay-loft, but there was no dog there either, but just as I was going out I fell, as if some one had struck the legs right from under me, and I rolled head over heels down the barn bridge as I r.ever had done before. When I got on my legs again,
