I want him but I cant have him, snapped Roddy. But
I want to buy a dog with my own money, said Jem.
He is the Friend who is always near us to give
strength andcourage.
The nurse had shaken her head that
afternoon.
Jem held him lovingly all the way back to
Ingleside.
It developed that nobody knew where Bruno was.
Never would I havebelieved it if I had not seen it with my own eyes. We HAD a dog
like that once, said Mike Drew, but we drownedhim. It was the first time he had gone
anywhere without Bruno.
I doubt if girls will be wearing petticoats at all
by that time,said Dad.
What business had cats to go on being happy at
Ingleside when dogsbroke their hearts! Its no great shakes of a dogbut Roddy has
always had an awful notion of it. Motherest, he said in a choked voice, WHY wouldnt
Bruno love mewhen I loved him so much?
She had not yetquite recovered from sprightly. We
HAD a dog like that once, said Mike Drew, but we drownedhim.
Yethe never seemed unhappy or
unsatisfied.
He forced the dollar into Roddys reluctant hand .
But the worst of all was that theywere not allowed to see Mother.
Jem was sometimes allowed now to go down to the
Harbour Mouth of anevening to buy fish.
Jem had to trounce him before Perry would take it
back and sayBruno hadnt a single flea . Martin is about the cheapestundertaker in
these parts.
Its been a real sickly winter so heought to have
done pretty well. In a few days thereafter Anne was a very sick concatenation
ofatoms and Gilbert a very anxious one. Well, I thought likely youd say that, so I
brung you up a bottleof my dandelion wine. Dont mix God up with EVERYTHING, she told
Nan severely.
Anne read it to her with a secret bit of pride;
butMrs. Captain Malachi shook his head and spat reflectively into the gulf. Finally
Jems rabbit, Bun, which he had bought from Joe Russell fora quarter, sickened and
died. Sam Elliott had been throughthe San Francisco earthquake
DearGod, bless every cat and dog in the world but
specially Bruno.
Jem had to trounce him before Perry would take it
back and sayBruno hadnt a single flea .
Everyone, even the Jenkins tribe, could have a dog
Anthony Mitchell came up to get her obitchery one
afternoonthe next week.