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 his head low and began to sniff and smell those parts he seemed so eager to taste. The cur continued to grunt and snarl, then he uplifted one of his legs as a mark of great condescension. The poodle thus encouraged began to lick that capsicum-like lip of the penis with evident gusto. The cur at last stopped snarling, and allowed himself to be caressed, with a look of contempt and unwilling satisfaction. The poodle stopped licking, and began again to caper in a coquettish way round the other dog, uttering at the same time sundry high-pitched barks. Excited in that way the cur jumped up and mounted on the back of the lecherous poodle which stood in a position to receive him. The mongrel caught the dog beneath him firmly with his front legs and began at once a lusty to-and-fro movement.

The poodle that submitted to be thus sodomized seemed to do so as an act of duty; he looked about him with his large lustrous and wondering eyes, apparently scoffing at himself for allowing that ugly, mangy, stinking cur to use him so vilely.