16 Uncle Hugh’s Story,

 

that they smacked their lips to
think of a nice fat goose for dinner.
So they carried it off to their hut,
and then they pulled off all the
feathers one by one, and made it
quite ready to cook. What funny
cooks they must have been! But
it wasn’t quite time to roast it, so
they tied it up by a string to the
door and went away, leaving the
captain’s dog, Neptune, to watch it.

Now, Nep was a very funny
dog—a nervous dog, Uncle Hugh
called him—and he was quite afraid
something would happen. By and
by, poor pussy came to have a
peep at the goosey-gander, and she