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the spot. On such occasions his Grandpa calls him a 

 " Crocowog " <This page is only for the pet dog-lover : 

 superior people, please pass on !> He is very nice to kiss 

 after his bath, a process attended on his side by subterranean 

 growls of protest and an alarming curling of the lip. But- 

 dear little gentle creature as he is at heartit is not in him 

 to bite even the most persistent tormentor. 

 When his Grandfather amuses himself by what he calls 

 " Squeezing the growls out " every morning, Loki tries vainly 

 to keep up a show of displeasure, but always ends on his 

 back with a windmill waving of pretty prayerful paws. 

 Loki has his own very marked ideas on the subject of 

 jokes ,- at least he has one in fact, an only q> 

 joke ! It took his Grandfather some time to ; v 

 apprehend it / but constant repetition of the 

 incident (after the consecrated fashion of the T& 

 British farce) is beginning to make him see - ^ 

 the point of it. The joke is this : at the top, ^ 

 or the bottom, of the garden, as the case may 

 be, coming in from, or going out for, a walk, 

 Loki stands stock still, generally unperceived 

 till you are midway. No coaxing, whistling,, 

 or screaming will budge him. He will stand 

 there a quarter of an hour, it may be. And 

 the point of the joke is that you must get 

 behind him and stamp your feet, and say " Naughty 

 Dog!" Then Loki careers up or down in par- 

 oxysms of merriment. This may not appeal to some 

 people's special bump of hilarity/ and as it is useless to try to 

 explain a jest, we will leave those to enjoy the spinach story. 



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