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bread quite safely; and he knew,
too, where his big master was work-
ing, and could take a note to him,
quite as well as May could. Indeed,
once when May was not quite well,
the faithful dog managed to carry his
master’s dinner, never touching a bit
of it, though he could smell the
meat, and knew there was a bone
with it—and Wolf had a very par-
ticular fancy for bones.

So, you see, Johnny could not have
Wolf to play when he had other
work in hand.

And he was always sorry when he
could >not, because he was such. a
capital companion, and there was no
end of the fun they had together.