You'd say so, too, if you knew Henry.

I was so surprised that I said I'd take it right off; felt 'twould be flyin' in the face of Providence not to.

A miracle--jumpin' Judas! I never knew Henry to give anybody anything afore--unless 'twas the smallpox, and then 'twan't a genuine case, nothin' but varioloid." "But what kind of a dog is it ?" "I don't know.

Henry used to own the mother of it, and she was one quarter mastiff and the rest assorted varieties.

This one he's givin' me ain't a whole dog, you see; just a half-grown pup.