From the
more sedate and discipline-enforcing Lad, the youngster turned
eagerly to chum-ship with this flighty gold-white stranger. And
Lady, for similar reason, seemed to find ten times as much
congeniality and fun in romping with Wolf as in playing with the
less galvanically agile Lad.
In brief, Lady and little Wolf became inseparable companions;--
this to the semi-exclusion of Lad.
The great collie did not resent this exclusion; nor did he try to
regain his fast-slipping hold on Wolf's affections. Yet, in
fashion that was more pathetic than ludicrous, he sought to win
back Lady's waning affection. A bit clumsily, he tried to romp
and gambol with her, as did Wolf. He tried to interest her, as of
yore, in following his lead in break-neck forest gallops after
rabbits or in gloriously exhilarating swims in the fire-blue lake
at the foot of the lawn. To the pityingly on-looking Mistress and
Master, he seemed like some general or statesman seeking to
unbend in the games and chatter of a party of high school boys
and girls.
But it was no use.
True, in the cross-country runs or the swirling charges after
rabbits, neither Lady nor Wolf could keep up with Lad's flying
stride.
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