Miranda the Great by Eleanor Estes

Author:Eleanor Estes [Estes, Eleanor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

But these dogs were famished. They had smelled the meat, and they were loath to depart. Miranda had to charge the great gaunt leader dog, and she had to scratch him. At the same moment, though she had not been instructed to do this—she just had the idea herself—Punka performed her perpendicular leap. She landed on gaunt dog's back, hissed in his ear, jumped off, and he fled howling, followed by the others. Punka retired to the shadows, trembling with terror at the idea of her courageous act, and her mother said, " Io!"

Miranda watched the dogs dashing down the street and disappearing around the circular corner of the Colosseum, all of them, that is, except one.

One dog stayed. This dog did not flee, and this dog would not go. She flattened herself down on the ground, like a great big floppy mop, and she would not go.

Miranda settled herself down in front of the dog that would not go and studied her. Then she said gently, "Who are you, doggie? Are you Zag? Zaggie?"

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