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summer, that dinner would be early, and Calvin, 

 walking about the grounds, missed it and came 

 in late. But he never made a mistake the sec- 

 ond day. There was one thing he never did, 

 he never rushed through an open doorway. He 

 never forgot his dignity. If he had asked to 

 have the door opened, and was eager to go out, 

 he always went deliberately ; I can see him now, 

 standing on the sill, looking about at the sky as 

 if he was thinking whether it were worth while 

 to take an umbrella, until he was near having his 

 tail shut in. 



His friendship was rather constant than de- 

 monstrative. When we returned from an absence 

 of nearly two years, Calvin welcomed us with 

 evident pleasure, but showed his satisfaction 

 rather by tranquil happiness than by fuming 

 about. He had the faculty of making us glad 

 to get home. It was his constancy that was 

 so attractive. He liked companionship, but he 



