[Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders]@TWC D-Link bookBeautiful Joe CHAPTER V 5/29
Steps are being taken to have his wife and children removed from him.'" Jack threw the paper into my box, and he and the other boys gave three cheers for the 'Daily News' and then ran away.
How glad I was! It did not matter so much for me, for I had escaped him, but now that it had been found out what a cruel man he was, there would be a restraint upon him, and poor Toby and the cows would have a happier time. I was going to tell about the Morris family. There were Mr.Morris, who was a clergyman and preached in a church in Fairport; Mrs.Morris, his wife; Miss Laura, who was the eldest of the family; then Jack, Ned, Carl, and Willie.
I think one reason why they were such a good family was because Mrs.Morris was such a good woman. She loved her husband and children, and did everything she could to make them happy. Mr.Morris was a very busy man and rarely interfered in household affairs.
Mrs.Morris was the one who said what was to be done and what was not to be done.
Even then, when I was a young dog, I used to think that she was very wise.
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