The boy'll fetch him down when he fetches the fly paper." "A dog?
We're--you're going to keep a dog--here ?" "Sure thing.

Why not?
Got room enough to keep a whole zoological menagerie if we wanted to, ain't we?
Besides, a dog'll be handy to have around.

Bill Foster, the life saver, told me that somebody busted into the station henhouse one night a week ago and got away with four of their likeliest pullets.

He cal'lates 'twas tramps or boys.

We don't keep hens, but there's some stuff in that boathouse I wouldn't want stole, and, bein' as there's no lock on the door, a dog would be a sort of protection, as you might say." "But thieves would never come way down here." "Why not?
'Tain't any further away from the rest of creation than the life savin' station, is it?
Anyhow, Henry G.give the dog to me free for nothin', and that's a miracle of itself.