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“Naw, I haven’t got a new dog,” declared Sammy. “Maybe I’m goin’ to have one, though, for Robbie Foote, who delivers groceries for Mrs. Kranz, the delicatessen lady, says he thinks he knows where he can get me a dog if my mother’ll let me have it. But I don’t guess she will as long as I have Buster.”

“I should think not,” said Tess, with an air of motherly wisdom.

“But a dog is nice,” said Dot. “And if you had one with a very soft and shaggy back, Sammy, I’d let my Alice-doll ride on him. Buster’s only a bulldog and not at all nice. He’s really horrid!” and Dot sniffed a little.

“Well, I haven’t got the dog—yet,” Sammy said.

“Then what do you want the raw beefsteak for?” demanded Tess.

“For the alligator,” whispered Sammy, as if he feared that Mrs. MacCall, the Scotch housekeeper, would hear him, even on the top floor of the old and rambling Corner House.

“The alligator!” cried Tess.

“The one we brought you from Plam Island?” demanded Dot.

“’Tisn’t Plam Island, I tell you!” insisted Sammy. “It’s Palm, and——”