YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



the stairs and papa hurried in with a strange 

 doctor, I sprang on the pillow beside her 

 and showed my pearly teeth, trying to growl 

 like a big bulldog. And when the strange 

 doctor began to pull her poor hurt arm 

 about, I could see she was in great pain, so 

 I leaped upon his hands and tried to pull 

 them away with my sharp teeth and claws, 

 and papa had to take me out of the room. 

 But I screamed and scolded at the door with 

 all my little might; and the first time the 

 maid went through to wait upon them, I 

 squeezed in after her and flew upon the bed 

 again. But mamma was laughing then, 

 and gathered me close in her well arm and 

 called me her little sweetheart. The doctor 

 was looking at papa and saying, You 

 heard that shoulder go into the socket with 

 a snap -it's all right now!' 



I knew what the last four words meant, 

 and I fell to kissing mamma with all my 

 might, I was so glad to see her safe and the 

 color coming back in her cheeks again. 

 The doctor had big black eyes and a black 

 mustache and I thought he looked like a 

 dangerous man; but when he patted my 

 head and said; 



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