I don't know why, for I was afraid of something, I don't know what.

I remember, though I suppose I was asleep, passing through the streets and over the bridge.

A fish leaped as I went by, and I leaned over to look at it, and I heard a lot of dogs howling.

The whole town seemed as if it must be full of dogs all howling at once, as I went up the steps.

Then I had a vague memory of something long and dark with red eyes, just as we saw in the sunset, and something very sweet and very bitter all around me at once.