Jonas on a Farm in Winter

, because they supposed that he would go away, when they came in and left him, and that they should see no more of him in the afternoon. But when Jon

d drive him away. Josey begged his uncle to keep him, but his aunt said she would not have a dog about the house. She said it would cost as much to keep him as to keep a

to go out after supper,

me supper first, fa

he won't go away. I expect now, you've fooled with him s

ooled with him a

," sai

night, but not very cold. Franco was in a little shed where there was a well, near the back

" said Jonas,

his tail, and

use, Franco keeping up with him all the way, sometimes on one side of the road, and sometimes on the other. At

ard case, Franco, but you and I must both submit

d, in the direction away from the hous

ce, and then turned round, and looked eagerly at Jo

t home!" and he stamped with his foot upon the ground,

road, and then he turned round, and stood in the middle o

d, and threw it towards him. The ice fell, before it reached Franco, and rolled along towards his feet, which

turn backwards, keep

arn of my own, I'd let you sleep in a corner of it; bu

rned to go into the house, he looked back, to see what had become of th

aid he to himself; and then he turned away, and wal

,-though he could see the moon shining dimly throught the broken clouds, which were driving across the sky. The roads looked black, as they do about the commencement of a thaw. Pr

the stable to give the cattle some hay, he found

said Jonas, "ho

ood looking up into Jonas's

onas, "how could

shining in his face, and his tail wagging a very little. He c

, at the table, told the farmer that he tried to drive the dog away

the farmer's wife. "I can drive him away,

bonnet, she went out into the yard and took a small stick fr

said she,

t Jonas, who was standing in the door-

nco," sa

ng the road, much as Jonas had done. She brandished her stick at him, and, when she had succeeded in getting him as far from he

n his mouth, and came trotting back to the farmer's wife, and laid it down at her feet; and then, standing bac

u want me t

himself brought to her, and throw it at him again; and, on the other hand, she could not bear to give up, and let Franco rema

you, dog;

ry advantage over her bonnet, which, in her haste, she had not tied on very securely. A strong gust carried it clear from her head, and blew it away over Franco, upon the snow by the side of the road beyond. Franco, who was all ready for a spring, bounded after it, and pursued it at

ained upon it rapidly, and at length overtook and seized it; and then, turning round, he trotted swiftly back, leaped ov

d, walked back to the house. The farmer, who had been looking out at the window

can't find him a bone, Jonas." "Yes, Jonas," said the farmer, "y

ld Oliver that morning, as he was patting his head under the o

it?" aske

returning good for evil, is goo