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We set out to meet him at Waterloo Station on a dull day of February—I, who had owned his impetuous mother, knowing a little what to expect, while to my companion he would be all original. We stood there waiting (for the Salisbury train was late), and wondering with a warm, half- fearful eagerness what sort of new thread Life was going to twine into our skein. (Should he arrive with a label of caveat emptor?) I think our chief dread was that he might have light eyes—those yellow eyes of the common, parti-colored spaniel. And each new minute of the train's tardiness increased our anxious compassion: His first journey; his first separation from his mother; this black two-months' baby! Then the train ran in, and we hastened to look for him. "Have you a dog for us?"

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