CHAPTER XI.

ROB.

Blinks was not the only dog on the Loudon place. There was another one, a much larger fellow, named Rob.

Rob was a big puppy, in the first place, and then he grew up to be a tall, long-legged dog, who was not only very fond of Harry and Kate, but of almost everybody else. In time he filled out and became rather more shapely, but he was always an ungainly dog--"too big for his size," as Harry put it.

It was supposed that Rob was partly bloodhound, but how much of him was bloodhound it would have been very difficult so say. Kate thought it was only his ears. They resembled the ears of a picture of a beautiful African bloodhound that she had in a book. At all events Rob showed no signs of any fighting ancestry. He was as gentle as a calf. Even Blinks was a better watch-dog. But then, Rob was only a year old, and he might improve in time.

But, in spite of his general inutility, Rob was a capital companion on a country ramble.

And so it happened, one bright day toward the close of April, that he and Harry and Kate went out together into the woods, beyond Aunt Matilda's cabin. Kate's objects in taking the walk were wild flowers and general spring investigations into the condition of the woods; but Harry had an eye to business, although to hear him talk you would have supposed that he thought as much about ferns and flowers as Kate did.

1. Was Rob a friendly dog?
2. Where did he live?
3. with who?
4. what type of dog was Rob?
5. Was he a fighter?
6. how old was he?
7. Who was a better watch dog?
8. What did Kate think of Rob's ears?
9. where did she see this?
10. Was Rob large?
11. how about when he was a puppy?
12. How did Harry feel?
13. Who did Rob like?
14. anyone else?
15. was he a full bloodhound?
16. he was gentle as a what?
17. who's cabin did they visit?
18. what did Kate talk about?
19. and?
20. who was walking?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. yes
2. Loudon place
3. Blinks
4. partly bloodhound,
5. no
6. a year old
7. Blinks
8. his ears resembled an African bloodhound
9. a book
10. yes
11. yes
12. too big for his size
13. Harry and Kate
14. almost everybody else
15. no
16. a calf.
17. Aunt Matilda's
18. wild flowers
19. general spring investigations
20. Rob, Harry and Kate