. Recollections of Auton House .. . d followed its master aboutthe streets. Everywhere T. Auton wentThe lamb was sure to go. It became, however, a greatnuisance. Its nose was every-where but in its proper place,no marble mantel-piece, normahogany bedstead, weretoo high for it to scale; in-deed, it seemed to choosethese delicate pieces of furniture for its especial landing-places. Itsidiotic baa was heard everywhere, and its hot, woolly presencewas quite too much on long summer days. Besides the lamb, T. Auton had a poodle. Carlo had no tail,but nature made up the deficiency to him by his unusu
. Recollections of Auton House .. . d followed its master aboutthe streets. Everywhere T. Auton wentThe lamb was sure to go. It became, however, a greatnuisance. Its nose was every-where but in its proper place,no marble mantel-piece, normahogany bedstead, weretoo high for it to scale; in-deed, it seemed to choosethese delicate pieces of furniture for its especial landing-places. Itsidiotic baa was heard everywhere, and its hot, woolly presencewas quite too much on long summer days. Besides the lamb, T. Auton had a poodle. Carlo had no tail,but nature made up the deficiency to him by his unusual sagacity,and the pity he excited among men on account of this eyes were red, as if from weeping. He sat down before everynew-comer, placed his paw in his lap, and looked up to him with hisred eyes, as if to invoke his pity. Carlo has no tail, he seemedto say, He can only wriggle the end of his back-bone when hefeels happy, only that and nothing more. This call for sympathy affected everybody, and all the children. 58 RECOLLECTIONS OF AUTON HOUSE. in particular were his firm friends. So Carlo, or, as Rosannah thecook called him, Carla, and the lamb, and T. Auton, and the rock-ing-horse on the piazza were four inseparables.
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