sentences:  His breast and forelegs were covered with clotted blood which had flowed from an ugly bullet wound.How long he had stood there in mute appeal for sympathy and relief, I do not know--perhaps all night.But as I recalled how cruelly I had spurred him to the chase the evening before, how without a groan of protest he responded the best he could, and how patiently he had stood with me, all unconscious of his suffering, on that lonely, miserable watch, I was not ashamed to throw my arms around his neck and weep out of my grief and contrition.