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pened. The poor animal, in his intensity 

 of grief, kept bounding from the floor to 

 the bed, whereon his almost unconscious 

 friend lay, and from the bed to the floor 

 again, moaning piteously the while, and 

 fondling the hands that had so often 

 fed him. 



The doctor, who soon came, seemed to 

 the dog a minister of evil rather than of 

 good. When the physician approached 

 the patient's bedside Dick sprang be- 

 tween the two, growling ominously, as 

 if to ward off some impending danger- 

 Although the affectionate creature soon 

 realized that no harm was intended, he 

 could hardh r be got to give up the posi- 

 tion he had taken as the guardian of his 

 dearest friend. When gently put out of 

 the room, he would return and cry out 

 at the door, and if not admitted would 



