Growler is to his kennel?

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CARLO AND SHAG.

Those dogs both live in one house, and have the same master, who is very
fond of them, and has trained them to work together; and, when one is
sent on an errand, the other always goes too. They are now standing at
the door of the school-room, waiting for their master's children to come
out. Jane and Ellen are very young, and would not know how to go and
come, without the company of the dogs. They love Carlo and Shag, and are
never afraid when they are with them. You see the teacher standing at
the door; he wants to know the errand of the dogs. How earnestly they
look up at him, as if telling him what they have come for; and Shag has
lifted his foot to step on the door-stone. They start off for school so
regularly, every day, that it is quite surprising.

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THE LOST BOY.

Oh! Mother! just look at this picture. Is that boy dead, or only asleep.
I think, my child, that he is numb with cold. He has lost his hat, and
looks helpless and sad. But this good dog has found him, and is going to
carry him home.

Mother, where did he find the boy? On the ground, Sarah. You see, in the
picture, that the snow-flakes are falling as though there were a great
storm. The boy was out on an errand, when the snow fell so thick and
fast that he lost his way; then he grew cold and fell into the snow.

If this dog had not taken him up, he would soon have died.

Oh! mother, what a dear good dog; I should think the boy would want to
keep him, for his own dog, as long as he lives.

MY DOG.

I'd never hurt my little dog,
But stroke and pat his head;
I like to see the joy he shows,
I like to see him fed.

Poor little dog--he's very good,
And very useful, too,
I'll never vex or tease him, then,
As children sometimes do.

But I will give him milk to drink,
A fire to make him warm,
A bed to lie on, when he sleeps,
And keep him from all harm.

And when I need a kindness done,
Perhaps, some future day,
Like these good dogs we've read about
My labor he'll repay.

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