YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



outgrown my little blue-and-gray blanket, 

 and aunt Mary said at once: 



' Oh, how I wish you had the stuff for a 

 new one, now we are snow-bound; what a 

 nice chance it would be for me to make it. ' 



'I shall take you at your word, aunt 

 Mary,' ! said mamma, 'for I have got the 

 loveliest things to make it, which I bought 

 at Christmas only she is such a little 

 witch to fit anything to, I am afraid you will 

 find it a big undertaking.' 



' Oh no, it will be lots of fun," said aunt 

 Mary, as she brought out a small cutting- 

 table from a corner and set it up in the 

 center of the floor. 'Aunt Mary' was the 

 pet name she called herself to me, and my 

 little heart was soon captivated with her 

 laughing brown eyes and cheery way. She 

 never put me off her lap, even when she was 

 handling silk floss or fine embroidery or 

 lace, and now when she called, ' Come here, 

 little Fairy, and let aunt Mary make you a 

 lovely new blanket,' 1 I jumped gaily on the 

 cutting-table and stood up before her, wag- 

 ging my tail, and turning back my slender 

 head and neck to kiss her, and twisting my 

 little body into a dozen shapes, as she started 

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