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Updated: June 26, 2025
"The trees are playing very well to-night," said a dog as he skipped by. "Come and have another dance?" and he flew round and round like a humming top. 'Zekiel shook his head several times. He was so out of breath he could only gasp hurriedly "No, no! No more, thank you!" but his friend had already disappeared. The Fozzy-gog now approached him.
But Nancy was framed and planned for other things, and 'Zekiel was an insufficient channel for her soft, womanly sympathy and her bright activity of mind and body. 'Zekiel had lost his tail in a mowing-machine; 'Zekiel had the asthma, and the immersion of his nose in milk made him sneeze, so he was wont to slip his paw in and out of the dish and lick it patiently for five minutes together.
It isn't fit as young lads should be cooped up always!" and when Granny Pyetangle had a neighbour with her, 'Zekiel gladly obeyed. One evening he ran down the village street with a smile on his face, and a new penny in his pocket. Squire Hancock had given it to him for holding his horse, and he was going to spend it at Dame Fossie's on a cake for his grandmother.
They soon left the village behind them, and plunged into a wood, which, stretching for miles across hill and dale, was known to be a favourite haunt of smugglers. 'Zekiel instantly became very wide awake indeed, and unpleasant cold shivers ran down his back, as he thought he saw black and white forms gliding amongst the trees, and yellow eyes glancing at him between the bare branches.
Why should I sit down and serve my dear husband, and Nancy feed 'Zekiel?" There was some truth in Mrs. Baxter's feeling. Mrs. Buzzell, for instance, had three sons; Maria Sharp was absorbed in her lame father and her Sunday-school work; and Lobelia Brewster would not have considered matrimony a blessing, even under the most favourable conditions.
"Tell me what it all means! Oh, do'ee, now!" said 'Zekiel, almost crying. The china dog sat down by 'Zekiel's side, and putting one paw affectionately on his knee, looked up in his face, with his honest yellow eyes. "The Fozzy-gog has commissioned me to explain all about it," he said confidentially. "So don't be frightened, and no harm will come of it!
'Frighten you! ha, ha, ha! and Dangerfield glared at his bloody shirt-sleeve, and laughed a chilly sneer; 'no, Sir, but I'll punish you, with Doctor Sturk's declaration against the babble of poor Zekiel Irons. I'll quickly close your mouth. 'Sir, I never made it a practice yet to hide evidence from a prisoner. Why should I desire to put you out of the world, if you're innocent?
'Zekiel craned forward, though he was trembling with fright, and saw in the fast gathering shadows his own china dog, standing beside Granny Pyetangle's favourite lavender bush though how it managed to get there so quickly he could not imagine! He stretched out his hand to stroke it, and started up, as instead of the cold china, he felt the soft curls of a fluffy fur coat.
They all listened to the Fozzy-gog with respectful attention, as he issued his directions; for he was evidently a person in authority. It did not occur to 'Zekiel to be surprised that all the dogs were chatting together in very comprehensible Dorsetshire English.
The housekeeper made her way out to the barn, where her son in his livery was waiting and reading the paper. "The doctor's gone, Zeke, and the child wants to see you." "Me?" returned the coachman in surprise. "Why the bully little kid!" "Yes, come and be quick. There won't be much time. You watch the clock that's side of her bed, and don't you be late." 'Zekiel followed with alacrity.
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