THE DREAM FOX 9 



have one more fight with Tiger to get even about 

 the duck leg, and then I don't care what 

 becomes of me!" and Waddles crept toward 

 the door with drooping head and tail, all his 

 fierceness having vanished. 



" Come back, you poor dear," called Anne, "you 

 haven't heard but half ! " Then, as he did not 

 move very quickly, she half lifted, half dragged, 

 him back to the foxskin. 



"Now look me straight in the face, Waddles, 

 for you've got two of the very worst of the Puk- 

 Wudjies living in your head, Sus-Picion and 

 Jea-Lousy. Father says, c Did-not-Think ' and 

 4 Did-not-Mean-To ' don't begin to make as much 

 trouble as they do. 



" In the first place, the new dog is not for me, it 

 is for Tommy. It is only a bit of a four-months- 

 old puppy dog that will like to run and play. 

 Father wants him to grow up with Tommy, so that 

 they will love each other as we do. Then you see, 

 you and I can stay together all the time as we 

 used to. This dog's mother lives at the Horse 

 Farm, and is one of Miss Jule's very best big 

 St. Bernards the big strong kind that, in the 

 cold country where they come from, can dig 

 out people that are buried in the snow. As for 

 being strange, why, you know that all Miss Jule's 



