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Did Bill send yer ?" 'Dolph, recoiling, shook his neck-ruff and prepared for another spring; but Tilda pushed him back and stood up.

"Take me along to him," she commanded, and lifted her face impudently to the clock-face of St.
Barnabas above the mean roofs.

"Barnabas, are yer?
Then give my compliments to the doctor, you Barnabas, an' tell 'im to cheese it." 'Dolph--short for Godolphus--pricked both ears and studied the sky-line.
Perceiving nothing there--not even a swallow to be chased--he barked twice (the humbug!) for sign that he understood thoroughly, and at once fell to new capers by way of changing the subject.

Tilda became severe.
"Look here, Godolphus," she explained, "this is biz-strict biz.