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Updated: June 17, 2025
When they grow up they can name themselves anything they like." "You've got no right to kick," Starr declared bluntly. "Your name suits you fine." His eyes said more than that, so that Helen May gave her attention to the dog. "There, now, you've licked it and polished it and left teeth marks all over it," she said, meaning the bone. "Come on, Pat, and let's see if you're a trained doggums."
Yes, there it was only now it had put an ear back and was sniffing at me with a mingling of interest and apprehension.. The strange beast of the jungle was a white bull-terrier. Abruptly I sat up. The terrier gave a startled sidewise bound, but paused again and stood regarding me. "Here, pup! Here, pup! Nice, nice doggums!" I said in soothing accents.
Helen May regarded him sternly from under her lashes, her chin tilted downward. "Do you always take a shot at something when you get peeved?" "Well, I'm liable to," Starr admitted darkly. "A dog especially. You better keep him if you don't want him hurt or anything." He took a bite of pie. "Oh, I wonder if he would! Would you, doggums?" "We'll try him a whirl and see," Starr offered cheerfully.
He finished the pie in one more swallow, handed back the plate, and wiped his fingers, man-fashion, on his trousers. "Come on, Pat. He likes Pat for a name," he explained carefully to Helen May. "I called him about every name I could think of, and that's the one he seems to sabe most." "I should say he does! Why, he left his bone when you called Pat. Now that's a shame, doggums!"
I rose and picked up my pistol, which had regained my confidence by not going off when I dropped it. With another alluring, "Here, doggums!" I started on my way. He shrank, trembled, hesitated, then was after me with a bound. So we went on through the forest. As we neared the camp the four-footed castaway's diffidence increased. I had to pet and coax.
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