"Hot chocolate and tea biscuits."
"Then I will have the same."
"Bring some cake too, Susan," said Miss Bessie, "and something for the
dog. I dare say he would like some of that turkey that was left from
dinner."
If I had had any ears I would have pricked them up at this, for I was
very fond of fowl, and I never got any at the Morrises', unless it might
be a stray bone or two.
What fun we had over our supper! The two girls sat at the big dining
table, and sipped their chocolate, and laughed and talked, and I had the
skeleton of a whole turkey on a newspaper that Susan spread on the
carpet.
I was very careful not to drag it about, and Miss Bessie laughed at me
till the tears came in her eyes. "That dog is a gentleman," she said;
"see how he holds bones on the paper with his paws, and strips the meat
off with his teeth. Oh, Joe, Joe, you are a funny dog! And you are
having a funny supper. I have heard of quail on toast, but I never heard
of turkey on newspaper."
"Hadn't we better go to bed?" said Miss Laura, when the hall clock
struck eleven.
"Yes, I suppose we had," said Miss Bessie. "Where is this animal to
sleep?" "I don't know," said Miss Laura; "he sleeps in the stable at
home, or in the kennel with Jim.
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