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"We only just knew you were coming. Are there plenty of ducks?" "Mebbe. Few like," said Dave in the slow way of a man who seldom speaks. "Wuph! wuph!" came from the boat. "What! Chip, boy! how are you?" cried Dick, patting the dog, which seemed to go half mad with delight at having someone to make a fuss over him, and then rushed to Tom to collect a few more friendly pats and words.
But all at once Philip's eyes brightened, and he started up as though touched by the wire of an electrical machine. "Bow-wow-wow; wuph, wuph, wuph!" sounded upon the clear night air. "Trill lill lill lill chug chug chug chug chug!" rang out the sweet notes of a nightingale close by; and then again "Bow-wow-wow; wuph, wuph, wuph!" from a dog apparently not far off.
Fred jumped; but instead of jumping right over he jumped right in, and had to be helped out by Philip; but he shared in his companion's renewed spirit, and now stood with him in the dusty road looking about. "Bow-wow-wow; wuph, wuph!" barked the dog again. "Why, I know where we are," said Philip; "that's Mr Benson's farm, and we are six miles away from home.
Silence again for quite ten minutes, and then David exclaimed "Wuph!" and lurched over sidewise up against his companion, but jerked himself up again, and said in a gruff whisper full of reproach, "Don't go to sleep, Master Tom." "No.
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