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to health.They had been devoted to each other from the moment they met, but it had taken a long time before Sky could really trust people again. He had bitten Jasmine once when he was frightened, and even now he sometimes got spooked by unfamiliar people and situations. But he was a very different dog from the frail and terrified puppy that Jasmine had scooped out of a hedge almost two years ago.
Jasmine looked up as car headlights appeared on the farm track.
“There you are,” she said to Bramble. “Dad’s back.You’ll get your supper now.”
Jasmine’s dad was the farmer at Oak Tree Farm. He normally drove a truck, but he had used Jasmine’s mum’s car tonight to take her older sister Ella out to practise her driving. Ella had been having driving lessons for months, but she didn’t seem to have made much progress.
“It will help her confidence if you take her out,” Mum had said to Dad. “Bless her, she’s
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