We did not go far.

Possibly at no time were we more than a hundred yards from the trees.

Coming around a sharp corner of rock (we went very carefully, because we did not know what we might encounter), we came upon three puppies playing in the sun.
They did not see us, and we watched them for some time.

They were wild dogs.

In the rock-wall was a horizontal fissure--evidently the lair where their mother had left them, and where they should have remained had they been obedient.