W. Somerset Maugham
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Walking gravely in, he would deposit a piece of silver, and receiving a roll and his change would march off homeward.
As this was a rather unusual proceeding in a curve of his species, the baker one day followed him.
And as the dog leaped joyously into the window of the deserted house, the man of Doe approached and looked in.
What was his surprise to see the dog deposit his bread calmly upon the floor and fall to tenderly licking the face of a beautiful child?
It is but fair to explain that there was nothing but the face remaining.
But this dog did so love the child.
End of chapter nineteen
Chapter twenty of the Fiend's Delight.
By Ambrose Beerce.
This Librevox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by april six zero nine zero
The boys who began wrong.
Two little California boys were arrested at Reno for horse thieving.
They had started from Surprise Valley with a cavalcade of thirty animals, and disposed of them leisurely along their line of march, until they were picked up at Reno, as above explained.
I don't feel quite easy about those youths.
Away out there in Nevada without their testaments.
Where there are no Sunday school books, boys are so apt to swear and chew tobacco and rob sluice boxes.
And once a boy begins to do that, last he might as well sell out.
He's bound to end by doing something bad.
I knew a boy once who began by robbing sluice boxes.
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