My Doggie and I

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Robert Michael Ballantyne. My Doggie and I

Chapter One. Explains Itself

Chapter Two. Introduces a Young Hero

Chapter Three. Treats of an Old Heroine

Chapter Four. In Which Dumps Finds Another Old Friend

Chapter Five. Conspiracy and Villainy, Innocence and Tragedy

Chapter Six. Relates a Stirring Innocent

Chapter Seven. My Circumstances begin to Brighten

Chapter Eight. Little Slidder Resists Temptation Successfully, and I Become Enslaved

Chapter Nine. On the Scent, but Puzzled

Chapter Ten. A Disappointment, an Accident, and a Perplexing Return

Chapter Eleven. Relates Generally to the Doings and Sayings of Robin Slidder

Chapter Twelve. Begins with Love, Hope, and Joy, and ends Peculiarly

Chapter Thirteen. A Wonderful Discovery

Chapter Fourteen. The Last

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The day had become very sultry by the time I went out to visit my patients. The sky was overcast with dark thunderous clouds, and, as there seemed every chance of a heavy shower, I returned to my lodgings for an umbrella.

“Oh, Mr Mellon!” exclaimed my landlady, as I entered the lobby, “was there ever a greater blessin’—oh!—”

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“For five bob. Yes—on’y five bob! I axed vun pound, but the young lady was so pleasant an’ pritty that I come down to ten bob. Then she said she was poor—and to tell ’ee the plain truth she looked like it—an’ she wanted the pup so bad that I come down to five.”

“And who was this young lady?”

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