The Slowcoach

delights of the caravan, and meanwhile she would herself go down to the Isle of Wight to try to find other rooms; and it was arranged that Mary Rothera

fortunate, but it threw Mr. Lenox into a

careful study. Each one of its four legs needs separate consideration. I should have liked some weeks of thought. The dog, too. Just as there i

k and fann

e them to Gregory, and told him to go to the stati

rts; it contains nothing whatever of such things, while, on the other hand, it is packed with matters of real interest. It tells you who has dogs for sale, and rabbits for sale, and magic-lanterns for sale, and cameras for sale, and bicycles for

ntitled "The Kennel," and then to the subsection "Retrievers," and he found t

ondon and one

ng at Chiswick), and, coming back with one at last, Mr. L

the caravan door. But the next, which was at Bermondsey, was better. Here, in a small backyard, they found Mr. Amos, the advertiser, surr

ything so swagger as

ly enough with his own people. If you keep only pedig

t I have got, for the first time in my whole career, an inferior animal. It's not mine. Oh, no; I'm only taking care of it for a friend. But it's a retriever all right, and a good one, mark you, though not a

yers didn't keep their own arms, and who kept their legs, and he might have asked if M

nded them how much more likely one is to get good watch-work from a dog who is not of the highest breeding than from a prize-winne

ng by no means overburdened with bloo

Mr. Amos thought he

teman was here and you were to hit him, that dog would ki

. Bateman in his presence. Suppose I were to fal

that," sai

Lenox, "we must get on, Gregory.

s ten," sa

nox; "much too dear.

ill be the end of my friendship with Mr. Bateman. I'll sa

Mr. Lenox, step

will you give?

five shillings as he s

rs," said

f biscuits, and with them he and Gregory fed the famished Diogenes all the way back to Chiswick, and

hired. To hire a carriage-horse or a riding-horse is easy enough, bu

d he therefore sent the following

ngly powerful, gentle white horse to draw a cara

d it out, "that's as clear as crys

leading horses of every size and colour. Kink was kept busy in getting rid of them, but one man succeeded in finding Robert unattended, and did all he c

. "Tell him I've got a pair of skews here as will do h

no use at all. We advertised for

from the house at this mom

a pantechnicon. There's lots of white on them, too. Your little boy here

nd said that white horses always had a d

se," he said. "Black's the colour. Look at this mare here-she's a beauty. Str

, "you are laboring under a misa

that was needed, and one afternoon a stable boy led into the yard a perfectly eno

and limb," said Mr. Lenox

aravan, especially as Mr. Scott slipped into his hand that evening a large knife conta