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THE NINETEENTH CHAPTER
THE ROCK
P they got, early next morning, out of the silken beds; and they saw that the sun was shining brightly and that the wind was blowing from the South.
Jip smelt the South wind for half an hour. Then he came to the Doctor, shaking his head.
"I smell no snuff as yet," he said. "We must wait till the wind changes to the East."
But even when the East wind came, at three o'clock that afternoon, the dog could not catch the smell of snuff.
The little boy was terribly disappointed and began to cry again, saying that no one seemed to be able to find his uncle for him. But all Jip said to the Doctor was,
"Tell him that when the wind changes to
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