178 Fairy Tales

“Yes, this is it,” snapped the puppy; ‘‘and
you'd better be off, or the soldiers will kill |
you! Whoof, Whoof!”

Now the dwarfs had been in great distress
about Ju-Ju, so directly they heard his voice
the door was opened, and he tumbled in and
down the steps like a ball, and Wolf tumbled
after him, for, though he did not generally go
so fast, he was afraid of being given the slip.
All the guard jumped back when they saw
him, for they thought it was a real wolf
rushing by, and then half of them followed
bravely in pursuit, and the whole place was
full of cries. Wolf knocked down at least a
dozen, and got a blow in his shoulder from
an axe; but he stuck close behind Ju-Ju, and
in a few moments more was leaping and
licking Barthel’s face, and Barthel had his
arms round his shaggy neck, and if he were
not quite crying, he was very near it!

The commotion by this time was terrible.
The dwarfs were so completely taken by
surprise that they lost their heads, and
imagined that their king and queen were