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1  "That's no police dog," said Tom.
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2  Mrs. Wilson was first concerned with the dog.
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3  "I want to get one of those dogs," she said earnestly.
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4  "No, it's not exactly a police dog," said the man with disappointment in his voice.
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5  There was nothing in it but a small expensive dog leash made of leather and braided silver.
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6  Our eyes lifted over the rosebeds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog days along shore.
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7  The little dog was sitting on the table looking with blind eyes through the smoke and from time to time groaning faintly.
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8  Michaelis didn't see anything odd in that and he gave Wilson a dozen reasons why his wife might have bought the dog leash.
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9  Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in.
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10  Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.
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11  A massage and a wave and a collar for the dog and one of those cute little ash-trays where you touch a spring, and a wreath with a black silk bow for mother's grave that'll last all summer.
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12  And if you think I didn't have my share of suffering--look here, when I went to give up that flat and saw that damn box of dog biscuits sitting there on the sideboard I sat down and cried like a baby.
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13  I had a dog, at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
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14  A reluctant elevator boy went for a box full of straw and some milk to which he added on his own initiative a tin of large hard dog biscuits--one of which decomposed apathetically in the saucer of milk all afternoon.
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