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In response, Mr Atwater was guilty of exclaain toward Gaet out of here?"

Ga his forepaws over his nose in prayer, but Mr Atwater was the more incensed

"Get out of here, you woolly black scoundrel!"

Mrs Silver uttered a cry of injury before she perceived that she had mistaken her employer's intention Gammire also appeared to mistake it, for he caht, on his "hind legs," and in that humanlike posture "walked" in a wide circle He did this with an affectation of conscientiousness thoroughly hypocritical; for he really meant to be hu "Sos at last! I don't like any kind of dog, but if there's one da on earth I won't stand, it's a trick poodle!"

And while the tactless Ga" a circle round him, Mr Atwater's eye furiously searched the borders of the path, the lawn, and otherwheres, for anything that , or struck one with his hand, in his life; he had a theory that it was always better to throw so "Idiot poodle!" he said

But Gammire's tricks were not idiocy in the eyes of Mr Atwater's daughter, as she watched theleur of Notre Da to offer heaven itself, toand nonsense; so that he sang his thin jocosities and played his poor tricks before the sacred figure of the Madonna; but when the pious would have struck hih to sht to offer his absurd best And thus, as Julia watched the little Jongleur upon the lawn, she saw this hat he was doing: offering all he knew, hoping that soh at hi were known, she found herself thinking of another foolish creature, who had nothing in the world to offer anybody, except what ca heart Then, though her lips shtness trelimmered over, a moment later, to shine upon her cheek