He staid about there with the boys until the sleds were loaded, and then he went down home with them.

There they fed him again with a large bone.

Jonas said that he was undoubtedly a dog that had lost his master, and had been wandering about to find him, until he became very hungry.

So he said they would leave him in the yard to gnaw his bone, and that then he would probably go away.

Josey wanted to shut him up and keep him, but Jonas said it would be wrong.
So the boys left the dog gnawing his bone, and went up after another load; but before they had half loaded their sleds, Oliver saw Franco coming, bounding up the road, towards them.