Chapter VIII
A Sorry Adventure
Although the dog is the friend and ally of man, doing much to guard and protect his property, yet he occasionally reverts to his wolf ancestry and becomes destructive. This is true in very rare instances of the faithful sheep dogs. There is something about the stupid sheep that seems to invite destruction.
They are so easily frightened and run so readily that what often begins as boisterous play on the part of the dogs ends as a bloody affair.
Now it happened that poor Pierre had fallen in with a Killer
Not a sheep dog gone bad, but just a natural scallywag among dogs. The
