Slipping lithely to one side he avoided the bull-rush, all the time talking in the same pleasantly modulated drawl.
"I saw this dog, earlier in the day," said he, "in a car, with some people.

They drove this way.

The dog must have chewed his cord and then jumped or fallen out, and strayed here.

You saw him, from the water, and tried to steal him.

Next to a vivisectionist, the filthiest man God ever made is the man who kicks a dog.