"But now in the last two weeks of his stray year the little dog had added a house on another road to his nightly round…"

"To start with there was Shora. Shora was a fishing village in Holland. It lay on the shore of the North Sea in Friesl…"

"There were no storks in Shora. Lina had written this story about storks of her own accord-the teacher hadn't asked he…"

"Do you know about storks? Storks on your roof bring all kinds of good luck."

"First to dream and then to do— isn't that the way to make a dream come true?"

"The dog had no name. For a dog to have a name someone must have him and someone must love him, and a dog must have so…"

"Hunger haunted the dog. It sat like an agony back of his eyes. Hunger ached out of his ladder-rack ribs, those lean r…"

"Sometimes the haunting hunger drove the little dog out of his woodlot hiding places by day. But only when hunger beca…"

"No one in that countryside really knew the dog existed. No one was sure. Still the dog had lived there for a year."

"It had been a long journey. Tien Pao had lost count of all the days and nights. But all those nights when the horns o…"