Mother watched him anxiously, and fearing some danger to her puppies, ran and jumped in the middle of us, and looked pleadingly up at him.
It only made him swear the more.

He took one pup after another, and right there, before his children and my poor distracted mother, put an end to their lives.

Some of them he seized by the legs and knocked against the stalls, till their brains were dashed out, others he killed with a fork.

It was very terrible.

My mother ran up and down the stable, screaming with pain, and I lay weak and trembling, and expecting every instant that my turn would come next.