After sitting a while on the front steps, with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands, he rose and strolled out along the quiet country road on its grassy footpath, past the Ballards' home.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The faint footpath grew still more indistinct, the undergrowth denser and more difficult for persons walking.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
The dog ahead set up an angry echo, through which the youth could hear the man's angry attempt to silence the animal, and guided by the two voices, the wanderer struck into a footpath, and running at a good pace, came suddenly into a small clearing, in which stood a small wooden hut, before the door of which man and dog were standing as if on guard.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice