A full section of the Loyals got to work on the dogs with scrubbing! brushes, but all the blandishments in the world failed to get the boy near the tubs. Everyone had been mighty' good to his pets and his clothes and his face could wait, remarked the little spartan. The plucky youngster was footsore and just about all in, and his pets were in no better shape. When last seen they were being shepherded into the little S.S.P.C.A. van -by Inspector J. H. Thomas for weet home. yinderstood that the local @ntends reporting the bo} rescue of his own pets and earlier release of many other animals deserted in Yangtszepoo to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for recognition.
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