y something right now," she smiled.
"Jerry, and Michael, and I. We've been practising it in secret for a
surprise for you. You just lie there and listen. It's the Doxology.
Don't Laugh. No pun intended."

She bent forward from the stool on which she sat, and drew Michael to her
so that he sat between her knees, her two hands holding his head and
jowls, his nose half-buried in her hair.

"Now Jerry!" she called sharply, as a singing teacher might call, so that
Jerry turned his head in attention, looked at her, smiled understanding
with his eyes, and waited.

It was Villa who started and pitched the Doxology, but quickly the two
dogs joined with their own soft, mellow howling, if howling it may be
called when it was so soft and mellow and true. And all that had
vanished into the Nothingness was in the minds of the two dogs as they
sang, and they sang back through the Nothingness to the land of
Otherwhere, and ran once again with the Lost Pack, and yet were not
entirely unaware of the present and of the indubitable two-legged god who
was called Villa and who sang with them and loved them.

"No reason we shouldn't make a quartette of it," remarked Harley Kennan,
as with his own voice he joined in.

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