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 ing and hissing. He started to go forward as fast as he could, but it was not fast enough, and almost before he realized, it was upon him.

He gave one frightened glance over his shoulder, and another down into the river, then jumped.

Thirty feet below he struck the water with a mighty splash, and went under so far that it seemed as though his lungs would burst before he came to the surface. But presently up he came, blowing and sputtering.

"Did he drown?" I hear my reader ask.

Oh, no! What a foolish question. Not he, for he was a dog.

He had the natural instincts of an animal, and in some ways man is the most helpless of all the animal kingdom.

He merely walked ashore in the water.