YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



jump out and lope along beside old Nellie; 

 it was only play for me to keep up with her, 

 so papa chirped her up to a gay trot, to try 

 my mettle, but that was easy fun for me. 

 I took a little longer springing leaps, and 

 didn't even look ahead, but turned my face 

 backward toward the carriage, and kept my 

 shining brown eyes on papa's face as he held 

 the lines, urging old Nellie faster and faster. 



Suddenly there was a low, angry snarl; a 

 great shaggy form sprang up from its sleep 

 by the roadside and bounded savagely after 

 me, with a loud, threatening growl which 

 made my little heart beat wild with fear! 



Mamma saw my danger, and gave a quick 

 cry of apprehension; papa seized the long 

 carriage whip, and tried to reach out with it 

 and deter the excited wolfish mongrel, who 

 seemed to have been aroused from some 

 dream of flying game by the swift fall of the 

 horse's feet to see me passing like a fleet 

 hare. He had never seen a creature like 

 me in his country experience and was 

 wild to overtake me. Whether his keen 

 scent would have warned him that I was 

 only a gentle creature of his own kind, in 

 time to have saved my life, papa and mam- 

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