This was too much, even from a friend, and with a sudden snarl Neewa bounced out of his nest and clinched with the pup.
Now the fact was that Miki, who had so ingloriously begged for mercy in their first scrimmage, came of fighting stock himself.

Mix the blood of a Mackenzie hound--which is the biggest-footed, biggest-shouldered, most powerful dog in the northland--with the blood of a Spitz and an Airedale and something is bound to come of it.

While the Mackenzie dog, with his ox-like strength, is peaceable and good-humoured in all sorts of weather, there is a good deal of the devil in the northern Spitz and Airedale and it is a question which likes a fight the best.

And all at once good-humoured little Miki felt the devil rising in him.

This time he did not yap for mercy.