CHAPTER TWENTY SIX.
HOW MARK AND THE MAJOR SAW SIGNS.
Bruff limped up eagerly, and sometimes put down his injured paw, which he had been dressing after nature's fashion by licking it well, and trotted by their side; but it was evident directly that another was to be of the party, for before they had gone fifty yards Jack bounded up and placed himself beside the dog.
The major hesitated for a moment.
"He won't do any harm," he said at last.

"Let him come.

I say, Mark, my lad, all that was very comic about the little fellow climbing the tree; but do you know, if you took pains I'm sure you might teach him to go up into the leafy crowns and screw the nuts round till they dropped." "I was wondering whether it would be possible," said Mark eagerly.
"Quite.

He is an intelligent little fellow.

Try.