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dejected ears and tail, which in his language 

 meant "mea culpa." I asked, 



" What is it, Boonie ? What 's Boonie been 

 doing?" 



Still lower sank head and tail, and his knees 

 began to weaken. I made a hasty survey of 

 the sitting-room, and then I understood. He 

 had slept on the lounge, a thing he was strictly 

 forbidden to do. 



"Oh, Boonie!' I cried, "you naughty dog! 

 Judith thought she could trust you ! ' 



At this his knees gave way, and he sank to 

 the floor utterly dejected. He would not rise, 

 nor even look up, until I had forgiven and com- 

 forted him. 



The next time we had to leave him alone in 

 the house, I built a "booby-trap," with two 

 light chairs on the lounge, which left him look- 

 ing so utterly crushed that I never had the 

 heart to do it again. But he never more trans- 

 gressed in that way, so I felt that I had dealt 

 wisely with him. 



It was a hard necessity which forced us to 

 shut him up when we were going where it 

 would not do to take him. At first we had 

 tried leaving him outside; but we found that 

 after we had been gone awhile, his heart was 



