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TO THE MEMORY OF SQUOUNCER
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with a delicious mess enough to warm the heart of any dog. And not only his heart: for if you had once looked at Squouncer going to his dinner, you would have had no difficulty in understanding the expression ‘your eyes starting


A portrait of greedy Squouncer by H. J. Ford


out of your head.’ Well, Squouncer dashed straight at his plate—the biggest you may be sure, and the fullest—and gobbled up the contents so fast, and with such a disgusting noise, that the tin plate performed a kind of dance all