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Four little Blossoms at Brookside Farm - Tim And Angi

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16 <strong>Four</strong> Little <strong>Blossoms</strong> <strong>at</strong> <strong>Brookside</strong> <strong>Farm</strong><br />

Meg put the strange dog down on the gravel<br />

He swayed unsteadily on three legs.<br />

p<strong>at</strong>h.<br />

"Look, Norah," she said, "His leg is broken.<br />

Doctor Maynard set it. <strong>And</strong> we only want to<br />

get him a drink of w<strong>at</strong>er. He's thirsty. He<br />

needn't even come into the house."<br />

Norah had a sharp tongue, but her heart was<br />

generous and sweet.<br />

"The poor beastie!" she said, opening the<br />

screen door of her jealously guarded kitchen.<br />

"Bring him in Meg. He do be having fever, I<br />

;<br />

suspect. I'll get him a cup of w<strong>at</strong>er. Dear,<br />

dear!"<br />

Making a soft, symp<strong>at</strong>hetic, clucking noise,<br />

Norah hurried to get a cup of cool w<strong>at</strong>er which<br />

the <strong>little</strong> dog lapped up greedily, standing on<br />

his<br />

three good legs.<br />

"Bobby said he thought Sam would let him<br />

sleep in the garage," said Meg. "I suppose it<br />

is cooler there for him. All right, Norah, I'll<br />

carry him out. But we want to show him to<br />

Mother."<br />

"She went to meet your f<strong>at</strong>her—she and Sam<br />

with the car," Norah told them. "<strong>And</strong> if I don't

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