“Seek ’em, Bull!” he loudly uttered, in a sort of fiendish roar.

Merely that, and nothing more.

Quickly to my feet I scrambled, and across the yard I ambled.

As I heard that bull-dog coming, bent on tasting human gore.

Soon he seized me by the breeches, and I gave some awful screeches,

As the entire seat in fragments from my Sunday pants he tore.

With my right hand lifted skyward, “I will kill that dog!” I swore.

This I said, and nothing more.

Soon the dog his grip releases, and from chasing me he ceases

While he stopped to chew the pieces that he from my breeches tore.