If I only could , I would glide up and down the ice there , as I saw the boys doing ; but somehow or other , I do n't know how to run . ' ` Bow-wow ! ' barked the old yard-dog ; he was rather hoarse and could n't bark very well . His hoarseness came on when he was a house-dog and used to lie in front of the stove . ` The sun will soon teach you to run ! I saw that last winter with your predecessor , and farther back still with his predecessors ! They have all run away ! ' ' I do n't understand you , my friend , ' said the Snow-man . ` That thing up there is to teach me to run ? ' He meant the moon . ` Well , it certainly did run just now , for I saw it quite plainly over there , and now here it is on this side . ' ` You know nothing at all about it , ' said the yard-dog . ` Why , you have only just been made . The thing you see there is the moon ; the other thing you saw going down the other side was the sun . He will come up again tomorrow morning , and will soon teach you how to run away down the gutter . The weather is going to change ; I feel it already by the pain in my left hind-leg ; the weather is certainly going to change . ' ' I ca n't understand him , ' said the Snow-man ; ` but I have an idea that he is speaking of something unpleasant . That thing that glares so , and then disappears , the sun , as he calls it , is not my friend . I know that by instinct . ' ` Bow-wow ! '
barked the yard-dog , and walked three times round himself , and then crept into his kennel XXXXX sleep .
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