Miss Laura said it was all very well to feed hunting dogs on meat, but dogs that are kept about a house get ill if they are fed too well.

So we had meat only once a day, and bread and milk, porridge, or dog biscuits, for our other meals.
I made a dreadful noise when I was eating.

Ever since Jenkins cut my ears off, I had had trouble in breathing.

The flaps had kept the wind and dust from the inside of my ears.

Now that they were gone my head was stuffed up all the time.