If you can make him love you, he will protect you at every turn.

He will go before you into the forest and all the crawling, creeping things will get out of his way.

He will nose around the flowers you want to gather, and if he growls and the hair on the back of his neck rises, never forget that you must heed that warning.

A few times I have not stopped for it, and I always have been sorry.

So far as anything animate or uncertain footing is concerned, you are always perfectly safe if you obey him.