YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



to fit me to some light lining cotton, just to 

 get a good pattern. She tried on my old 

 blanket to see where it was too short and too 

 tight, and where I needed extra thickness to 

 protect my delicate breast from the winter's 

 cold. 



I understood the whole thing just as well 

 as any little child could have done, and I 

 tried to stand still, only I felt so grateful to 

 my sweet cloak-maker I had to bob around 

 to kiss her every moment, and my little eel- 

 like figure was in a score of shapes. But 

 finally mamma declared that aunt Mary had 

 a splendid fit, and the lovely new materials 



- a seal-brown corduroy, with an old-gold 

 satin lining, some fluffy brown fur to trim it 

 around the neck, and some cunning gilt 

 buttons to close and trim it double-breasted 



-were all laid out on the table. I kissed 

 everything as aunt Mary held it up to ad- 

 mire, and when they put me down on the 

 carpet, while they spread the new pattern 

 on the velvet, I stood up and watched, with 

 my little fore paws on the edge of the cutting- 

 table, I was so pleased and excited. 



I stuck tight to aunt Mary every minute, 

 nestling in her lap all the time she was bind- 



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