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Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XIX A BAND OF MERCY
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"And here are Dolly, and Jennie, and Martha," she went on, as some little girls came running out of a house that we were passing.
The little girls joined us and looked so hard at my head and stump of a tail, and my fine collar, that I felt quite shy, and walked with my head against Miss Laura's dress.
She stooped down and patted me, and then I felt as if I didn't care how much they stared.

Miss Laura never forgot me.

No matter how earnestly she was talking, or playing a game, or doing anything, she always stopped occasionally to give me word or look, to show that she knew I was near.
Mrs.Wood paused in front of a building on the main street.

A great many boys and girls were going in, and we went with them.

We found ourselves in a large room, with a platform at one end of it.


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