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Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XV OUR JOURNEY TO RIVERDALE
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He saw some snow that had sifted through the station roof and he was so thirsty that he began to lick it up.

When the snow was all gone, he jumped up and licked the frost on the windows.
Mr.Drury's friend was so angry.

He found the baggage-master, and said to him: "What did you mean, by coming into my car every few hours, to tell me that the dog was fed, and watered, and comfortable?
I shall report you." He went into the office at the station, and complained of the man, and was told that he was a drinking man, and was going to be dismissed.
I was not afraid of suffering like Pluto, because it was only going to take us a few hours to get to Riverdale.

I found that we always went slowly before we came in to a station, and one time when we began to slacken speed I thought that surely we must be at our journey's end.
However, it was not Riverdale.

The car gave a kind of jump, then there was a crashing sound ahead, and we stopped.
I heard men shouting and running up and down, and I wondered what had happened.


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