The Understudy

The book is The Understudy. It has a written about the Dog. Dogs on board ship is a nuisance said the night-watchman gazing fiercely at the vociferous mongrel that had chased him from the deck of the Henry William; the skipper asks me to keep an eye on the ship and then leaves a thing like that down in the cabin. I watched them up the road and then I locked the gate and walked up and down the what thinking of a funny thing money is and how it alters people's natures. And after all I thought that three arf-dollars earned honest was better than a reward for hiding another man's dog. For five minutes they all talked at once with their nasty fists held under my nose. I couldn't make lead or tail of it at first and then I found as how they had got the dog back with them and that the landlord had said he wasn't the one.