DICKORY DOCK

CHAPTER I.


Of course there was a baby in the case--a baby and mongrel dog, and a
little boy and girl. They baby was small, and not particularly fair, but
it had round limbs and a dimple or two, and a soft, half-pathetic, half-
doggy look in its blue eyes, and the usual knack, which most helpless
little babies have, of twining itself round the hearts of those who took
care of it.

The caretakers of this baby were the two children and the dog. Of course
a woman, who went by the name of nurse, did duty...