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"Now, Susy, I shouldn't think you'd feel like laughing or making fun. The dog, of course; and they sent for the city marshal. You know Mr. Garvin, Horace?" "Yes, the man that scowls so, with the scar on his nose, and a horse-whip in his hand." "Miss All'n cried. She lifted up the lid of her desk, and hid her head, but we all knew she was crying. You see we had such a time about it.
He knew Miss All'n just as well as could be, and used to go with the rest of the scholars to meet her every morning; and when she patted him on the head, and said 'Good old doggie, it did seem like he'd fly out of his wits." "Then when she rang the bell he trotted in just as proud, hanging down his head as meek as could be.
Sometimes he got locked up all night. He'd be asleep, you know, by the stove, or else under the seats, and Miss All'n would forget, and suppose he was gone with the rest of the scholars." "Well, he was a darling old dog, if he did chew up the books! I just about know he got hungry in the night, or he never would have thought of it.
Penn he saw his folk drowned all'n a heap 'fore he rightly knew what was comin'. His mind give out from that on.
We all cried like we should kill ourselves, and put our fingers in our ears; for we heard the man when he fired the gun, I mean we heard the gun when the man fired it, and then it was of no use; but we stopped our ears, and Miss All'n hid her face, and cried and cried and cried!"
Why, we thought he was just as good as any body. He never bit nor growled, that dog didn't, not a mite. There wasn't one of us but he loved, 'specially Miss All'n." "Now wasn't it too bad Mrs. Snell made such a fuss? She didn't love that dog one speck, I don't know as she ever saw him, and she didn't care whether he was dead or alive. I just know she didn't." "I'll tell you how it was.