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CHAPTER X
BILLY'S TRAINING CONTINUED

When Billy was five months old, he had his first walk in the street.
Miss Laura knew that he had been well trained, so she did not hesitate
to take him into the town. She was not the kind of a young lady to go
into the street with a dog that would not behave himself, and she was
never willing to attract attention to herself by calling out orders to
any of her pets.
As soon as we got down the front steps, she said, quietly to Billy, "To
heel." It was very hard for little, playful Billy to keep close to her,
when he saw so many new and wonderful things about him. He had gotten
acquainted with everything in the house and garden, but this outside
world was full of things he wanted to look at and smell of, and he was
fairly crazy to play with some of the pretty dogs he saw running about.
But he did just as he was told.
Soon we came to a shop, and Miss Laura went in to buy some ribbons. She
said to me, "Stay out," but Billy she took in with her. I watched them
through the glass door, and saw her go to a counter and sit down.


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