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Rh street running from far, far away to meet me, and jump and stretch his paws to my knees as if he would give me an affectionate embrace! The first time I experienced boyish joy together with surprise which caused me to go home with my overcoat covered with mud up to my belt. And I never noticed it!

My good Dick!

Very soon I began, little by little, to distinguish the different expressions of his eyes, in which I never before saw more than one, an invariable expression, the mute aspect of two black cherries, marked with a luminous point in the centre, like a glistening drop of dew.

Gradually I have recognized the expression of. curiosity, the impatience, the pain of being deceived if any least promise of mine failed,—the reproach, the imploring prayer, and also