Well, I meant to make a dog of him, so I gave him L 

 another lot. He was just like a little child he ^ 

 thought he was very hungry still and could eat any 

 amount more ; but it was not possible. The lapping 

 became slower and more laboured, with pauses every 

 now and then to get breath or lick his lips and look 

 about him, until at last he was fairly beaten : he could 

 only look at it, blink and lick his chops ; and, knowing 

 that he would keep on trying, I took the saucer away. 

 He was too full to object or to run after it ; he was too 

 full to move. He stood where he was, with his legs 

 well spread and his little body blown out like a balloon, 

 and finished licking the drops and crumbs off his face 

 without moving a foot. 



There was something so extraordinarily funny in 

 the appearance and attitude of the puppy that we 

 watched to see what he would do next. He had been 

 standing very close to the leg of the table, but not 

 quite touching it, when he finished feeding ; and even 

 after he had done washing his face and cleaning up 

 generally, he stood there stock still for several minutes, 

 as though it was altogether too much trouble to move. 

 One little bandy hind leg stuck out behind the table- 

 leg, and the bulge of his little tummy stuck out in 

 front of it ; so that when at last he decided to make 

 a move the very first little lurch brought his hip up 

 against the table-leg. In an instant the puppy's appear- 

 ance changed completely : the hair on his back and 

 shoulders bristled; his head went up erect; one ear stood 

 up straight and the other at half cock ; and his stumpy 

 tail quivered with rage. He evidently 



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