Bowser the Hound . Bowser the Hound was a prisoner . Yes , Sir , Bowser was a sure-enough prisoner . But there is a great difference in prisons . Bowser was a prisoner of kindness . It seems funny that kindness should ever make any one a prisoner , but it is so sometimes . You see , it was this way : When Bowser had been taken in to that strange farmhouse , he had been so used up that he had had only strength enough to very feebly wag his tail . Right away the people in that farmhouse knew what had happened to Bowser . That is , they knew part of what had happened to him . They knew that he had been lost and had somehow hurt one leg . They were very , very good to him . They fed him , and made a comfortable bed for him , and rubbed something on the leg which he had hurt and which had swollen . Almost right away after eating Bowser went to sleep and slept and slept and slept . It was the very best thing he could have done . The next day he felt a whole lot better , but he was so stiff and lame that he could hardly move . He did n't try very much . He was petted and cared for quite as tenderly as he would have been at his own home . So several days passed , and Bowser was beginning to feel more like himself . The more he felt like himself , the more he wanted to go home . It was n't that there he would receive any greater kindness than he was now receiving , but home is home and there is no place like it .
So XXXXX began to be uneasy .
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