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`` Well , you can just go and buy me half a dozen more like it , '' said Doggie . He dismissed the old man , dressed and went downstairs . The Dean had breakfasted at seven . Peggy and Oliver were not yet down for the nine o'clock meal . Doggie strolled about the garden and sauntered round to the stable-yard . There he encountered Chipmunk in his shirt-sleeves , sitting on a packing case and polishing Oliver 's leggings . He raised an ugly , clean-shaven mug and scowled beneath his bushy eyebrows at the new-comer .