YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



Here I am, almost distracted with babies 

 and dogs already; but that's just like a 



man!' 



'And it's just like a woman to be un- 

 grateful when a man's spent his money to 

 try to please her; and never get so much as 

 'thank you' for it. There are plenty who 

 would be glad enough to get such a beauti- 

 ful little creature, and you ought to be!' 

 retorted my new master, disappointed at 

 my reception, while I stood trembling at 

 sound of their voices and felt I was un- 

 welcome. 



I looked appealingly to him, and wagged 

 my slender tail feebly and timorously now. 

 He had called me a 'beautiful little crea- 

 ture'; others had called me so before, with 

 a note of pity in their voices, and I wondered 

 why. Oh, how I wished I could run away, 

 back to my own dear mamma, if I could 

 only find her for here I stood rejected. 



But mother Golden-Hair was kind and 

 tender at heart; she dearly loved her babies 

 and her husband and the little black-and- 

 tans, Pansy and Skippum. She would soon 

 have loved me, only, poor, tired young 

 mother, in a world of fret and fuss and 



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