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girls say to one of the others, "Just look at the fat woman and the 

 skeleton." I felt very much like barking, and taking a bit out of 

 her big arm. 



The woman smiled 

 when she saw me, and 

 said, " What a pretty 

 pug!" Then my master 

 put me on the platform, 

 and the fat woman took 

 me up in her arms. Good- 

 ness me! I was lost! I 

 could not see anything, 

 for the fat woman laid 

 me ill her lap, and began 

 to pat me with her big, 

 fat hands. Every time she 

 lei her hand fall I thought 

 I should be crushed. 



The skeleton moved his 

 chair close up to the fat 

 woman, and he, too, be- 

 gan to pat me. Once his 

 arm came near my mouth. 

 I did not know it was his 

 arm, it was so thin, so I 

 opened my mouth and 

 began to bite it. 



You should have heard 

 the fat woman laugh. 

 Wh}^ she shook so it al- 

 most made me sea-sick. 

 The poor skeleion could 

 not do a thing. I had 

 his arm in my mouth; 



and the fat woman was laughing so she raised me up and down 

 every time she shook. Of course the skeleton had to get up and 

 sit down everv time I went up or down. 



