"I's right glad to see you, young massa, 'deed I is; but where is de old
fellow Neptune?"
"Yes, yes, where is the faithful creature?" asked Sea-flower; "at our joy
in seeing you, we have quite forgotten him."
Just then the dog's well remembered bark was heard at the door, and on
opening it, the animal marched in, and laying a little parcel which he
had brought in his mouth, upon the floor, he jumped upon the Sea-flower,
nearly overpowering her, in his delight frisking from one to the other
as if he were mad. Harry was now, for the first time, aware that the dog
had not come with him, and examining the parcel which he had brought,
to his no little astonishment he found it was the identical curiously
wrought block, which he had found after that dreadful night of the
storm. Among the many gifts which he had brought home to his mother and
sister, he had forgotten this simple one, and now he remembered that he
had not seen it for a long time. Why the dog should have noticed so
trifling a thing, was indeed singular. Harry related the circumstances
by which he had come in possession of the curiosity, and from the
presents of silks, crapes, fruits, etc.
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