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Chink : The Development of a Pup 



panion, this irrepressible, woolly-coated little 

 Dog. 



Chink was never still for five minutes. In- 

 deed, he would do anything he was told to do 

 except keep still. He was always trying to do 

 some absurd and impossible thing, or, if he did 



r- v attempt the possible, he usually spoiled his best 



effort by his way of going about it. He once 

 [i n spent a whole morning trying to run up a tall, 



'' v / \ ^- N straight pine-tree in whose branches was a 



. i > ~„ snickering Pine Squirrel. 



\i\' , ~\ i • 4 The darling ambition of his life for some 



v J _^ '( -I weeks was to catch one of the Picket-pin Go- 



pJ y j *'' phers that swarmed on the prairie about the 

 /I camp. These little animals have a trick of sit- 



, U ^ \/ ting bolt upright on their hind legs, with their 



• * r '>'4>0 P aws held close in, so that at a distance they 

 v*.--' 0- - " ; look exactly like picket-pins. Often when 



we went out to picket our horses for the night 

 we would go toward a Gopher, thinking it was 

 a picket-pin already driven in, and would find 

 out the mistake only when it dived into the 

 ground with a defiant chirrup. 



Chink had determined to catch one of these 

 Gophers the very first day he came into the 



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