Read "Boy the Wandering Dog" by Marshall Saunders online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
He tore open the telegram, exclaimed "Thank God," clapped his hat on, slammed the door in my face, and was gone -- all inside a minute.
What had happened, that he had forgotten me? I screamed with rage and disappointment, and scratched at the door, a thing I rarely do, for nothing makes human beings so annoyed as to have their doors marked by dogs.