"The man, I mean, who ran in here just now!" "That dog ought to be killed, and if you don't take him out of here at once I'll call the police," said the proprietor of the store, indignantly.

"It's an outrage to allow such brutes to run at large." "That's the reason I'm holding him," said Billy Brackett; "but where is the man ?" "I don't know; but I hope he has gone for his gun, and will know how to use it too.

If he don't, I--" The young engineer did not wait to hear more, for at that moment he spied a back door standing partly open.

That was where his man had gone, and without paying any further attention to the irate shopkeeper, he dashed out through it with Bim at his heels.
Winn searched high and low, with the utmost faithfulness, until he reached the outskirts of the town, but without finding a trace of the missing Don Blossom.

There was a growth of timber lining the river-bank, just beyond the houses, and the boy ventured a little way into this, arguing that a monkey would naturally take to trees.