YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



get right down and give me the warm spot. 

 So I loved him dearly, and was very proud 

 when the doctor would say, as we sat beside 

 him : 



4 O-l-d Sportum is my g-r-e-a-t b-i-g bull- 

 doggie, and Fairy is my 1-i-ittle bull-dog- 





 gie! 



Then we would crowd up to him for a 

 hand-pat, with our tails wagging, but old 

 Sportum gave me the first place in every- 

 thing. How noble it was in him to be so 

 kind to me, in his own home, when I came 

 a little stranger. 



Then, there was dear old Jimmy, aunt 

 Mary's black and white kitty, who was just 

 as kind and loving to me as he could be, and 

 would roll and tumble and frolic from room 

 to room, just to amuse me. 



He would lie, sometimes, between old 

 Sportum's big paws, purring away under his 

 chin, or snuggled close against his white 

 breast in a round black ball. Or if Spor- 

 tum was walking, Jimmy would whisk about 

 his forelegs, in and out, rubbing his silky 

 length caressingly against Old Dog, as they 

 often called him. 



And he soon went through the same show 

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