YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



mamma, and tucked in, nice and warm; 

 only, in my eagerness to see and be seen, I 

 would stretch my slender head and neck and 

 little folded fore paws to the foreground. 



I could hear the little children by the 

 country roadside cry out, ' Oh, see that 

 cunning little doggie!' and even the ladies 

 would look up at me and smile, and say, 

 'What a little beauty!' till mamma 

 laughed and said I was "the admired of all 

 admirers,'' with my fawn-like face and 

 great shining eyes, against the background 

 of the dark green carriage lining. 



How I did love to hear the trot, trot of the 

 horse's feet, and see the trees and fields go 

 flying by, and see the cows grazing the green 

 grass. 



When we were far from home that after- 

 noon, in what seemed a strange country to 

 me, with sleeping, scattered farm-houses, 

 papa said: 



'Let us put little Fairy out of the car- 

 riage, and let her run alongside; the exercise 

 will do her good.' : 



Mamma seemed a little afraid that some 

 passing carriage would run over me, but 

 finally all seemed so quiet I was allowed to 



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