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Well, why don't you?" said he.

I don't know which road to take."

That is too bad," he said, shaking his shaggy head gravely. "I wish I could

help you; but I can't. I'm a stranger in these parts."

Seems as if I were, too," she said, sitting down beside him. "It's funny. A few

minutes ago I was home, and I just came to show you the way to Butterfield--"

So I shouldn't make a mistake and go there--"

And now I'm lost myself and don't know how to get home!"

Have an apple," suggested the shaggy man, handing her one with pretty red

cheeks.

I'm not hungry," said Dorothy, pushing it away.

But you may be, to-morrow; then you'll be sorry you didn't eat the apple,"

said he.

If I am, I'll eat the apple then," promised Dorothy.

Perhaps there won't be any apple then," he returned, beginning to eat the

red-cheeked one himself. "Dogs sometimes can find their way home better

than people," he went on; "perhaps your dog can lead you back to the farm."

Will you, Toto?" asked Dorothy.

Toto wagged his tail vigorously.

All right," said the girl; "let's go home."

Toto looked around a minute and dashed up one of the roads.

Good-bye, Shaggy Man," called Dorothy, and ran after Toto. The little dog

pranced briskly along for some distance; when he turned around and looked

at his mistress questioningly.

Oh, don't 'spect ME to tell you anything; I don't know the way," she said.

You'll have to find it yourself."

But Toto couldn't. He wagged his tail, and sneezed, and shook his ears, and

trotted back where they had left the shaggy man. From here he started along

another road; then came back and tried another; but each time he found the

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