[Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders]@TWC D-Link bookBeautiful Joe CHAPTER XVI DINGLEY FARM 16/20
Mrs.Windham set great store by him, and her husband didn't want to kill him.
But he said Dash had got to give up his sheep-killing, if he wanted to live.
That cured him. He's never worried a sheep from that day to this, and if you offer him a bit of sheep's wool now, he tucks his tail between his legs, and runs for home.
Now, I must stop my talk, for we're in sight of the farm. Yonder's our boundary line, and there's the house.
You'll see a difference in the trees since you were here before." We had come to a turn in the road where the ground sloped gently upward. We turned in at the gate, and drove between rows of trees up to a long, low; red house, with a veranda all round it.
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