Oh, you never saw such a wretched little object, dripping with rain, and with such a poor starved little face, and bones almost coming through the skin.

He looked up at me, and begged me as plain as plain could be to have pity on him and help him; didn't you, Grimmy?
And so I brought him upstairs, and made him comfortable, and now we shall never part .-- Do you like animals ?" "Yes." The door of the room suddenly opened, and there sprang in a fresh-coloured young girl in hat and jacket, short, plump, pretty, and looking about seventeen.

She started back on seeing that the room was occupied.
"What is it, Sally ?" asked Grim's mistress, with a good-natured laugh.
"Why, Mrs.Walter told me you wasn't in yet; I'm awful sorry, I beg your pardon." She spoke with a strong south-west-country accent.
"Do you want me ?" "It's only for Grim," returned Sally, showing something which she held wrapped up in paper.

"I'd brought un home a bit o' fish, a nice bit without bone; it'll just suit he." "Then come and give it he," said the other, with a merry glance at Waymark.

"But he mustn't make a mess on the hearthrug." "Oh, trust un for that," cried Sally.