The doers . le dog was too tired to chase her. So hepretended that lie did nt see her, and hetrotted along under the van as far as the newhouse. All the vans stopped at the new house, andthe horses backed them up side by side inthe gutter. There was nt any curbstone, andthe sidewalk was a new one of gravel, andthere would be a border of grass when thegrass had time to grow. As soon as the vans had stopped, the littledog trotted out from under the tw o-horse one,and went around the house looking for somewater. And he came to the faucet where theyscrew on the hose, and he saw that there wasa dro
The doers . le dog was too tired to chase her. So hepretended that lie did nt see her, and hetrotted along under the van as far as the newhouse. All the vans stopped at the new house, andthe horses backed them up side by side inthe gutter. There was nt any curbstone, andthe sidewalk was a new one of gravel, andthere would be a border of grass when thegrass had time to grow. As soon as the vans had stopped, the littledog trotted out from under the tw o-horse one,and went around the house looking for somewater. And he came to the faucet where theyscrew on the hose, and he saw that there wasa drop of water hanging on the bottom ofthe faucet. So he licked that up and waiteduntil another drop came, and he lickedthat up. Then one of the moving-men saw him. Poor little Dick ! said the moving-man. And he went to the faucet and the little 164 THE DOERS dog wagged his stump of a tail and backedaway a step and waited. Then the moving-man turned the handleof the faucet so that a little thin stream of ->-4. HE LICKED UP THE DROPS OF WATER water ran out, and the little dog came up andlapped out of the little thin stream, wagginghis stump of a tail very fast. He wagged andhe lapped until he had had enough. And the moving-man turned the handle ofthe faucet the other way, and the waterstopped running. THE MOVING-MEN STORY 1G5 Then the little dog licked the mans hand,and he trotted back to the van, and he wentunder and curled up and slumped down, andhe put his head on his paws, and he drew twoor three long breaths, and he went to sleep. There were three men with each three-horse van and two men with the two-horsevan; and they had all got down and takenoff their coats, and they had unlocked thegreat tall doors at the back of each van, andthey had opened the doors, and had takensome of the things out. The things were covered with a great manyold soft cloths: old coarse burlaps, and oldquilts and comforters. These soft cloths belonged to the moving-men, and they keptthem to use in th
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