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Mabel Osgood Wright
Dogtown
Being Some Chapters from the Annals of the Waddles Family Set Down in the Language of Housepeople
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338089298
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CHAPTER I
ENTER MRS. WADDLES
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Happy sat by the watering-trough, waiting for Baldy to come for the milking pails and go for the cows.
Waddles, lying on the sunny side of the lilac hedge, was also waiting for this important evening happening; and though nothing in his appearance told that he was on the watch, for his back was toward the barn, yet he would know when Baldy crossed the yard to wash his hands at the pump, gauge the time he took to reach the house, and, without hurrying or looking round, be at his side the moment that the clashing of tin told that he had really come for the pails.
Seated on the stone wall, Anne and Miss Letty were also waiting, partly for Baldy, but chiefly to hear the evening music that would soon come from the wooded field edge and near-by garden, for it was a lovely May afternoon. In the morning there had been a warm rain that made worm pulling and bug hunting a pleasure instead of labour for the birds, and the air was full of scraps of song.