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The Dog Crusoe and His Master

CHAPTER XIX
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Oui! my broder Deek!" Here he attempted to rise, but being unable fell back again, and the whole thing came so suddenly, and made so deep an impression on his impulsive mind, that he incontinently burst into tears; then he burst into a long laugh.

Suddenly he paused, and scrambling up to a sitting posture, looked earnestly into Dick's face through his tearful eyes.
"Oh, non, non!" he exclaimed, stretching himself out at full length again, and closing his eyes; "it are too goot to be true.

I am dream.
I vill wait till I am wake." Dick roused him out of this, resolute sleep, however, somewhat roughly.

Meanwhile Joe had rubbed and kicked himself into a state of animation, exclaiming that he felt as if he wos walkin' on a thousand needles and pins, and in a few minutes they were ready to accompany their overjoyed deliverer back to the Peigan camp.

Crusoe testified his delight in various elephantine gambols round the persons of his old friends, who were not slow to acknowledge his services.
"They haven't treated us overly well," remarked Joe Blunt, as they strode through the underwood.
"Non, de rascale, vraiment, de am villains.


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