The passage describes a dog. It makes his head swim. He stops, and looks all aound: climbs the nearest sand-mound, and gazes into the distance shakes his head reflectively, and then without a word he turns and jogs along back to his train, and takes up a humble position under the hindmost wagon, and feels unspeakably mean and looks ashamed and hangs his tail at half-mast for a week.
What phrase from this passage suggests that the dog feels defeated?
