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with a Good-Samaritan look, as one who 

 had been relieving the afflicted. 



I resumed my book and asked no 

 questions ; but the next day, happening 

 in the kitchen pretty early in the morn- 

 ing, I found that the late occupant of our 

 dog-house had been provided with com- 

 fortable quarters in the cook's domain. 

 I well knew the prime mover in Master 

 Richard's translation. 



Dick seemed to take his promotion 

 rather as a matter of course, and as due 

 to one who had merited the attention. 

 Thereafter he wholly neglected his for- 

 mer abode, seeking his new lodgings each 

 night with great regularity. 



Not long after this our Scottish friend 

 began to show that fierce dislike of cats 

 that has since been a marked trait in his 

 disposition. To account for this, we 



