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Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XXIV
20/26

I'll go and prepare your old room next to Harry's." And she bustled away.
The two young men went to the pantry for doughnuts and milk, and Mr.
Wood stood gazing down at me.

"Good dog," he said; "you look as if you sensed that talk to-night.

Come, get a bone, and then away to bed." He gave me a very large mutton bone, and I held it in my mouth, and watched him opening the woodshed door.

I love human beings; and the saddest time of day for me is when I have to be separated from them while they sleep.
"Now, go to bed and rest well, Beautiful Joe," said Mr.Wood, "and if you hear any stranger round the house, run out and bark.

Don't be chasing wild animals in your sleep, though.


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