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any notice of his mistress or have anything to do 

 with her, sometimes for a whole day. 



Time sHpped by, and after a while there was a little 

 master in the new house, — a baby boy, and his name 

 too was Richard. Fax was very much interested 

 in the baby. He no longer followed his older master 

 down to the office. Instead he slept beside the baby's 

 crib or walked beside the baby-carriage as the nurse 

 wheeled it through the streets. He seemed to feel 

 it his special charge. As the baby grew to be first 



Fax to the Rescue 



a toddler and then a sturdy little boy, Fax was still 

 his devoted companion. 



One day the little child was playing on the pave- 

 ment before the house. Fax, now grown to be 

 quite an old dog, lay upon the steps watching him. 



Suddenly around the corner came a large and 

 dangferous lookinrr docf. It Avas frothinaf at the 

 mouth and now and then it turned its head aside 



