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Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XXIV THE RABBIT AND THE HEN
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Come, get a bone, and then away to bed." He gave me a very large mutton bone, and I held it in my mouth, and watched him opening the woodshed door.

I love human beings; and the saddest time of day for me is when I have to be separated from them while they sleep.
"Now, go to bed and rest well, Beautiful Joe," said Mr.Wood, "and if you hear any stranger round the house, run out and bark.

Don't be chasing wild animals in your sleep, though.

They say a dog is the only animal that dreams.

I wonder whether it's true ?" Then he went into the house and shut the door.
I had a sheepskin to lie on, and a very good bed it made.


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