Quib

"Quib," said he, "this fellow must never come back!

The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Arthur Cheney Train 1910

"You are a clever fellow, Quib," he acknowledged good-naturedly,

The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Arthur Cheney Train 1910

I must stay here to fight the case, but you, Quib, must take this fellow where they'll never find him -- Africa, Alaska, Europe -- anywhere!

The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Arthur Cheney Train 1910

"Shake hands with Mr. Dillingham, Quib," said Gottlieb as I one day unexpectedly entered the latter's office.

The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Arthur Cheney Train 1910

Quib was dancing around in a quiver of noisy excitement, for he had caught a sniff of something under the first bush he sprang into.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

It was a sad thing for Julius that his mother had set him at the potato-patch, and that Quib had broken his contract with the bone.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

All the boys went over while Quib was wriggling under, through a hole he knew, and there, almost right before them was the stone-heap.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

It was a place where a woodchuck or a small dog could get around a good deal faster than any boy, but they all followed Quib in a way that would have scared their mothers if they had been there.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

Quib must have understood what Mart Penniman said, for he did not halt for one second till he reached the bars that led into that very field.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

He would have been glad of a small glimpse of Quib, but all he had found as yet was Mr. Hamburger, who was standing under an old butternut-tree and looking down at a round, hollow place in the ground.

The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902