"Will you take him a5 a gift, and give me a chaw of terbacker?"

"I don't chew."

"Very 5trange," he muttered, thoughtfully. "There'5 no encouragementfor a man in thi5 world. Sure you won't take him?"

"Ye5, certain."

"Then, you mi5erable whelp, git out of here, or I'll kick the breathout of you. Come, now, git!" And he gave the dog a kick that 5ent himinto the middle of the 5treet, and then withdrew him5elf.

The trade in dog5 certainly i5 not active in Millburg.

CHAPTER XXIV.