A Puppy for Georgie

"I want a bear," said Georgie.

Mary laughed.

Joanna just kept drumming on her tin can, humming, "Tiger here. Tiger there. Found a tiger. Lost a bear."

"I like tigers," said Freddie, proudly. "Bengal tigers."

"Tigers are neat, too," said Georgie. "But I want a bear."

"And what would you do with a bear?" laughed Mary.

"I'd... I'd... I don't know what I'd do," admitted Georgie.

"A puppy would be nice," said Sandy, smiling.

"Yes," said Georgie, smiling back at her. "That's what I really want -- a puppy. New Boy, where can I find a puppy?"

"I don't know," said the New Boy. "I haven't heard any dogs around the Project."

"Of course not, silly," said Mary. "Dogs aren't allowed here."

"I don't want a big, old dog," said Georgie. "I just want a puppy, a little puppy. He wouldn't bother anybody."

"I think I have an idea," said Mary. And she was very proud she had an idea. For a couple weeks now the New Boy had been the only one with ideas.

She walked around the yard, picking up old scraps of wood and broken chairs and boxes and piled them all up in a dark corner. "There. That's your dog house, Georgie," she said proudly.

"Dog house?" asked Georgie.

"Well, call it a puppy house," she said.

"But where's the puppy?" asked Georgie.

"Don't worry. He'll come," explained Mary. "When you build a bird house, you don't worry where the birds will come from. If you build a good house, they'll find it and move in. Well, it's the same thing with puppies."

"Gosh," said everybody. Even the New Boy was impressed.

So they all pitched in and helped patch up leaks in the roof. They made the house strong enough to keep out the wind and the rain. They put big juicy bones inside the house. They made the opening just big enough for a little puppy to crawl through.

Two days later, a puppy moved in. It was very happy with its new home, so happy that all it said was, "Yup! Yup! Yup!"

"That's 'yes' in puppy language," explained the New Boy.

So Georgie named him "Yup the Pup."

But Georgie wondered where Yup the Pup had come from.

"Oh, he's just a stray," said Mary.

The New Boy said, "Only the very best strays were chosen for the Space Project."

"Oh, of course," said Georgie. "He's the very best of strays."

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