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of his constitution. He was attacked with acute rheuma 

 tism, and, notwithstanding the most assiduous cares of his 

 mistress, died at last in her arms. 



Funeral honors were decreed him ; white chrysanthemums 

 and myrtle leaves decked his bier. And so Rag was gath 

 ered to the dogs which had gone before him. 



V. 



\ \ 7 ELL, after the departure of Madam Florence there 

 was a long cessation of the dog mania in our fam 

 ily. We concluded that we would have no more pets ; for 

 they made too much anxiety, and care, and trouble, and 

 broke all our hearts by death or desertion. 



At last, however, some neighbors of ours took unto them 

 selves, to enliven their dwelling, a little saucy Scotch ter 

 rier, whose bright eyes and wicked tricks so wrought upon 

 the heart of one of our juvenile branches, that there was 

 no rest in the camp without this addition to it. Nothing 

 was so pretty, so bright, so knowing and cunning, as a 

 &quot;Scotch terrier,&quot; and a Scotch terrier we must have, so 

 said Miss Jenny, our youngest. 



And so a bargain was struck by one of Jenny s friends 

 with some of the knowing ones in Boston, and home she 

 came, the happy possessor of a genuine article, as wide 



