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Updated: May 10, 2025
I meant this to be a surprise to her." "And I guess," I says, "it will be the biggest one you have ever given her." "Don't try to be funny about it," he says; "I'm not altogether myself, and I may do you an injury." He was right. It wasn't a subject for joking, though it had its humorous side. "But why," I says, "put it in a dog-basket?"
Reuben now slowly climbed down from his high seat, and removed from the rumble a great trunk, a suit-case, a parcel of books, and a dog-basket; and the stranger at once occupied herself in releasing from his confined quarters a pug so atrociously high-bred that Susanna instantly exclaimed: "My stars! That dog's so humbly he must ache!"
There were gray rugs and gray walls, some old mahogany, the snuff-box picture of Napoleon over his desk, a dog-basket of brown wicker in a corner. Muffin, Derry's Airedale, stood at attention as his master came in. He knew that the length of his sojourn depended on his manners. A bright fire was burning, a long chair slanted across the hearthrug.
"It isn't a dog-basket," he answers irritably; "it's a picnic hamper. At the last moment I found I hadn't got the face to carry the child in my arms: I thought of what the street-boys would call out after me. He's a rare one to sleep, and I thought if I made him comfortable in that he couldn't hurt, just for so short a journey.
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