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    The Day of the Dog
    The Day of the Dog
    The Day of the Dog
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    The Day of the Dog

    By Ed Emshwiller and Anderson Horne

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Day of the Dog - Ed Emshwiller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Day of the Dog, by Anderson Horne

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      Title: The Day of the Dog

      Author: Anderson Horne

      Illustrator: Ed Emshwiller

      Release Date: November 23, 2009 [EBook #30528]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DAY OF THE DOG ***

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      They came home from a strange journey.... And heroes they might have been—a little dog and a man!

      Illustrated by Ed Emsh

      BY ANDERSEN HORNE

      The

      DAY OF THE DOG

      Carol stared glumly at the ship-to-shore transmitter. I hate being out here in the middle of the Caribbean with no radio communication. Can't you fix it?

      This is a year for sun spots, and transmission usually gets impossible around dusk, Bill explained. It will be all right in the morning. If you want to listen to the radio, you can use the portable radio directional finder. That always works.

      I want to catch the 5 o'clock news and hear the latest on our satellite, Carol replied. She went to the RDF and switched it on to the standard broadcast channel. Anyhow, I'd feel better if we could put out a signal. The way we're limping along with water in our gas is no fun. It will take us twenty hours to get back to Nassau the way we're losing RPM'S.

      Bill Anderson looked at his young, pretty wife and smiled. You're behaving like a tenderfoot. We've plenty of gas, a good boat and perfect weather. Tomorrow morning I'll clean out our carburetors and we'll pick up speed. Meantime, we're about to enter one of the prettiest harbors in the Bahamas, throw over anchor ...

      The RDF drowned him out.

      "The world is

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