sleep again.

At last this cruel boy stuck the needle in too far and hurt poor Nox,
who jumped up with a start, and as he did so the needle broke off,
part of it staying in the flesh, where, after a great deal of work
which hurt the poor dog dreadfully, the little sisters found it. How
they cried for their pet! The braver one held Nox's lips and pulled
out the needle, while the other wiped the tears from her sister's
eyes, that she might see what she was doing. Nox sat still and moaned
and wagged his tail very feebly, but when it was over he fairly
knocked the little sisters down in his eagerness to show his
gratitude. But Benjy went out and found Mr. Rough, and as he did not
feel like being kind to any one, he kicked him, and Mr. Rough for the
first time ran away. Benjy could not find him, but he found a boy as
naughty as himself, who was chasing another little dog and pelting it
with stones. This would have been very good fun, but one of the stones
struck the dog and killed him. So the boys tied something around his
neck and threw him into the river.

Benjy went to bed early that night, but he could not sleep, because he
was thinking of that little white dog, and wishing he had not thrown
him into the river; so at last he got up and went to the willow-tree.
He looked up through the branches and saw the moon shining down at
him, and it seemed so large and so close that he thought if he were
only on the highest part of the tree he could touch it with his hand.
While he was looking he thought of a book his mother had, which told
him that all animals went up into the moon after they left the earth.

"I wonder," said Benjy, "if that dog we killed last night is really up
there."