It was the one that had been beneath the stairs. Brindled, patches of hair gone, one ear folded over and the other standing straight and notched from fighting. He didn’t seem to be any particular breed. Just big and rangy, right on the edge of ugly, though I would come to think of him as beautiful. He was Airedale crossed with hound crossed with alligator. Alley dog. Big, tough, mean alley dog. As I watched he spit cloth— it looked like blue jeans—out of his mouth.
- READ the short selection above from “Dirk the Protector”. Then draw the dog on computer paper. Your drawing should match the details of the text.
- You probably started this in class, but you should finish it for HW. The CW on loose leaf (vocabulary sentences) was due in class.