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Ring - A Frontier Dog (1921) (Paperback) Loot Price: R694
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Ring - A Frontier Dog (1921) (Paperback): Walter Flavius McCaleb

Ring - A Frontier Dog (1921) (Paperback)

Walter Flavius McCaleb; Illustrated by Edwin Megargee

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter II MY MASTER I HAD not meant to defy him?I did not understand. But I was soon to be a wiser puppy. This little madman without another word seized me firmly; and, although I opposed him, he took me by the back of the neck and stuck my muzzle into the pan, muttering the while, "Drink it, please?please ." But I couldn't drink it I didn't even know what he was talking about. I struggled and sneezed so violently that a white spray was scattered all over master. ' Little-Brother, who had come upon the scene, retired a pace, laughing fit to kill. Master, however, held me with a grip which soon convinced me that to struggle was vain. Shall I ever forget that first clash of wills? No. Although tired and terror-stricken from my long journey in the sack, I still was disposed to fight; and I wouldn't drink. Poor, innocent puppy that I was, how could I understand that he wanted only to feed me and that unlesshe fed me I should starve. He looked at me perplexed and probably thought me hopelessly stupid; but stupidity could not save me, for he was not to be outdone. He stood there puzzled for a moment, finger on lip, and then he left me. When he returned a moment later he took me in his arms, and this time he held in his hands a shiny thing which he dipped into the pan. Then he held my head straight up and forced the shiny thing between my jaws I felt something running down my throat and I was obliged to swallow the stuff or strangle to death. So I swallowed it, and once I had tasted it, being ever so hungry, I liked it; and I did not oppose him much after that. When he finally put me down I even stuck out my tiny red tongue to wipe the last drop off my mouth. And how good it was. Then, as though satisfied with his work, off he capered, running indoors. He shouted...

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Imprint: Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2009
First published: November 2009
Authors: Walter Flavius McCaleb
Illustrators: Edwin Megargee
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 978-1-120-69384-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN: 1-120-69384-5
Barcode: 9781120693846

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