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TAG; OR, THE CHIEN BOULE DOG


Oh, leetle Bateese wat for,
Oh, leetle Bateese—”

A second’s pause, then the figure of a man emerged from the building, followed by two little boys in ill-fitting clothes, each carrying a miniature telescope valise and having a cardboard tag attached to his neck by stout twine. One child was sallow and melancholy, the

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