68 STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



" That is against the rules. You may sit on the 

 other dog if you can, but never bite. So it's 

 really better to play when you aren't very hungry 

 and the bone doesn't count for so much. Then 

 it's sport ; but if you are hungry and keep getting 

 only a taste, it's provoking, and then it's only a 

 common fight and no real sport. 



"It's nice and warm in here, missy, and I 

 think, if you don't mind, I'll curl up and take a 

 nap, and by and by, if you have any of those 

 cookies that I smell baking, you might wake me 

 up ; " so saying, Waddles stretched himself in front 

 of the fire, his nose nicely fitted between his front 

 paws. 



A fire of cannel coal in a basket grate rested on 

 the fire-dogs, instead of the usual logs ; for it had 

 been such a long cold season that the big log pile 

 had burned away too fast, and the woodhouse 

 was nearly empty. Anne kneeled on the rug, 

 opened a long box that served as a window seat, 

 and looked in. There was not much to see, 

 some great lumps of coal at one end, while the rest 

 of the box was filled with pine kindling wood, 

 split in various lengths and sizes. 



" Miss Jule said she would give me a big knife 

 like hers, with three blades, a hoof pick, and a 

 punch in it to make holes in leather, just as soon 



