Identifier: ruddergrange00stoc (find matches)
Title: Rudder Grange
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902
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Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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for the dog didnt seehim, and the first thing I knowed he was stickin hishead in the window, and he asked me to give himsome thin to eat. And when I said Fd see in a minuteif there was anything for him, he says to me, l Gimmea piece of one of them pies—pies Id just baked andwas settin to cool on the kitchen table! l No, sir,says I, Fin not goin to cut one of them pies for you,or any one like you. i All right! says he. l Ill comein and help myself. He must have known there wasno man about, and comin the way he did, he hadntseen the dog. So he come round to the kitchen door ;but I shot out before he got there and unchained LordEdward. I guess he saw the dog when he got to thedoor, and at any rate he heard the chain clankin, andhe didnt go in, but just put for the gate. But LordEdward was after him so quick that he hadnt no timeto go to no gates. It was all he could do to scoot upthis tree, and if hed been a millionth part of a minutelater hed a been in another world by this time. 136
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I looked up at the man. RUDDER GRANGE The man, who had not attempted to interrupt Po-monas speech, now began again to implore me to lethim down, while Euphemia looked pitifully at him,and was about, I think, to intercede with me in hisfavor, but my attention was drawn off from her bythe strange conduct of the dog. Believing, I suppose,that he might leave the tramp for a moment5 nowthat I had arrived, he had dashed away to anothertree, where he was barking furiously, standing on hishind legs and clawing at the trunk. Whats the matter over there ! I asked. Oh, thats the other fellow, said Pomona. Hesdo harm. And then, as the tramp made a movementas if he would try to come down and make a rush forsafety during the absence of the dog, she called out,Here, boy! here, boy! and in an instant LordEdward was again raging at his post at the foot ofthe apple-tree. I was grievously puzzled by all this, and walkedover to the other tree, followed, as before, by Euphe-mia and Pomona. This one, said

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