nothing better to do to resign himself to be pulled about or by she was a strikingly pretty child with long curling brown locks and a and on the whole although privately considered she had taken rather a liberty in disturbing him he was willing to overlook it been thinking said that as you and lady will be thrown a good deal together when we go into the country next week you ought to know one a farewell appearance another and youve never been properly introduced yet so vm going to introduce you now now lady was only s doll and a doll too with perhaps as few ideas as any doll ever had yet � which is a good deal to say despised her with all the of a thoroughly superior dog he considered there was simply nothing in her except possibly and it had made him jealous and angry for a long time to notice the influence that this staring creature had managed to gain over her mistress now sit up said sat up he felt that committed him to nothing but he was careful not to look at lady who was in the work basket with her toes turned in lady said next with great ceremony let me introduce my particular friend mr you ought to bow and say something nice and clever only you can t so you must give your instead here was an insult for a self respecting dog determined never to disgrace himself by presenting his to a doll it was quite against his principles he dropped on all very rude of you said but a farewell appearance you shall do it will think it so odd if you don t sit up again and give your and let stroke your head the dog s little black nose wrinkled and his lips showing his sharp white teeth he was not going to be touched by s wax hand if he could help it unfortunately like older people sometimes was bent upon forcing persons to know one another in spite of an obvious on at least one side and so she brought the doll up to the and taking one limp pink arm attempted to pat the dog s head with it this was too much his eyes red like two signal lamps there was a sharp sudden snap and the next minute lady s right arm was between s keen teeth after that there was a terrible pause knew he was in for it but he was not sorry he dropped the pieces of wax one by one and stood there with his head on one side growling to himself but for all that for he was afraid to meet indignant grey eyes you abominable barbarous dog she said at last using the longest words she could to impress him see what youve done youve bitten poor lady s arm off a farewell appearance he could not deny it he had he looked down at the fragments before him and then sullenly up again at his eyes said what he felt � i m glad of it � serves her right td do it again you deserve to be well whipped continued severely but you do howl so i shall leave you to your own conscience a favourite remark of her until your bad heart is touched and you come here and say you re sorry and beg both our i only wish you could be made to pay for a new arm go away out of my sight you bad dog i can t bear to look at you still moved leisurely down from the table and out of the open door into the kitchen he was thinking that arm was very nasty and he should like something to take the taste away when he got downstairs however he found the butcher was calling and had left the area gate open which struck him as a good opportunity for a by the time he came back would have forgotten all about it or she might think he was lost and find out which was the more valuable animal � a silly useless doll or an intelligent dog like himself saw him from the window as he bolted out with tail erect he s doing it to show off a farewell appearance she said to herself he s a horrid dog sometimes but i suppose i shall have to forgive him when he comes back however did not come back that night nor all the next day nor the day after that nor any for the fact was an experienced had long had his eye on him and happened to come across him that very morning he was not such a stupid dog as to be unaware he was doing wrong in following a stranger but then the man had such delightful suggestions about him of things dogs love to eat and had started for his run in a temper so he followed the broken legged man till they reached a narrow lonely alley and then just as was thinking about going home again the stranger turned suddenly on him hemmed him up in a corner caught him up in one hand tapped him sharply on the head and slipped him stunned into a inside pocket i thought likely i should come on you in ere bob said a broken man in a fur cap about a week after s disappearance to a short red faced hoarse man who was drinking at the bar of a public house a farewell appearance ah said the hoarse man well you ain t fur out as it happens yes i did said the other i met your partner the other day and he tells me you re looking out for a i ve got a article about me at this moment i should like you to cast a eye over and into his inside pocket he 