YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



little Fairy-Fay, big as life, and I never knew 

 she was around ! ' 



When I was only a baby dog they petted 

 me for sitting still to have my picture taken 

 on the stone steps, when the island home 

 was building; so I always posed of my own 

 accord after that, and would 

 cross my little paws and try to 

 look just as sweet as I could. 



There was one bright Au- 

 gust morning that papa tried 



to have Tit- Willow, the fawn-and-white 

 kitten, and Dandy Jim, the tame black 

 crow, pose with me beside Venus, the 

 poor white lady who stood on a boat-load 

 of flowers in the lawn. I used to feel so 

 sorry for her at first, because she hadn't any 

 clothes, only a few that were falling off her, 

 though she tried to hold them on, and she 



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