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If a dog were to speak to you, Little One, in "really talk," I dare say you would jump a foot -- unless you happened to be sitting on a fallen tree at the time; then, very likely, you would do as Buddie did, jump to both feet.
"Why, Colonel! " she cried; "I didn't know you could talk."