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Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XXXVII
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He sometimes comes here, and when he does, he always brings the Morrises presents of foreign fruits and curiosities of different kinds.
Malta, the cat, is still living, and is with Mrs.Morris.Davy, the rat, is gone, so is poor old Jim.

He went away one day last summer, and no one ever knew what became of him.

The Morrises searched everywhere for him, and offered a large reward to any one who would find him, but he never turned up again.

I think that he felt he was going to die, and went into some out-of-the-way place.

He remembered how badly Miss Laura felt when Dandy died, and he wanted to spare her the greater sorrow of his death.


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