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 know our master went to the city to-night, and I followed him."

"What did you do that for?" asked Dandy; "it was naughty."

"Oh, no, it wasn't; I thought that he had forgotten me. Well, when we got there we went into a great big house as large as four barns like this one, where there were lots of people."

"How many?" asked Dandy.

"A million, I guess," said Frisky. "I found master right near the door, and went in and lay down beside him; but he didn't look glad to see his doggie. I hadn't but just got there, when there was the queerest noise a great ways off, and awful sad, like the noise the kittens made when Mr. Brown put them in the boiler, and killed them with some terrible smelling stuff. Then pretty quick it grew louder, and louder; and then there were terrible growls mixed in with it, awful growls, that made my hair stand up; the sounds were as loud as fifty bears. Then I peeked up over the top of the pen where master and I were, and I could see a man, a fierce-looking man with long hair,—I guess he was an Injun; he was sitting on a long bench, and kicking away under the growl-box; and every little while he would reach down and pull something, and then the growling would get louder and louder. But pretty soon the growls got so loud, and the long scarey meows so sad, that I barked right out