it as a truism unworthy of notice; he evidently felt that

a comparison between love and dollars was preposterous.

At this point in the conversation a little dog with a

lame leg hobbled to the edge of the rocks in front of

the spot where Dick was seated, and looked down into

the water, which was deep there. Whether it did so

for the purpose of admiring its very plain visage in the

liquid mirror, or finding out what was going on among

the fish, we cannot say, as it never told us; but at that

moment a big, clumsy, savage-looking dog rushed out