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between mouthfuls to feast his loving eyes on 

 first one, then the other of us, and his tail never 

 once stopped wagging. Rebecca came purring 

 in to rub against his legs, and even submitted 

 with shut eyes to a kiss from Ids big wet 

 tongue. He must have felt that such an hour 

 repaid him for all his sufferings. 



After he had eaten until he evidently could 

 not take another morsel, we drew him in front 

 of us as we sat side by side, for a three-cor- 

 nered talk. He sat on end, waving his tail to 

 and fro on the floor, wrinkling his forehead and 

 cocking up his ears, while we explained the 

 situation to him. 



We told him how kind Mr. Nimrod meant to 

 be to him, how he would train him to hunt and 

 take him on long daily runs. Then we re- 

 minded him how impossible it was for Julius to 

 go on such excursions with him, and of how 

 many scrapes he had got into by going alone, 

 he seeming to take it all in and to turn it over 

 in his mind. 



Then we told him that since he had found 

 our new home he could come often to see us, 

 and he would always find us glad to see him, 

 yes, more than glad I 



Then Julius got his hat and said, 



