YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



up my little brown ears, for I heard aunt 

 Mary say : 



"Is it best to tell her, yet?" 



'Oh yes, I think so," answered the doc- 

 tor, 'for if all went well, the steamer got 

 into New York yesterday and they are on 

 their way here now.' 



They thought they were talking low, but 





I caught a note of expectancy in their voices. 

 I sprang from my basket and laid my little 

 fore paws on the doctor's knee and looked 

 in his face, with such great, eager, question- 

 ing eyes, while little tremors shook my 

 form, that he said: 



'The secret's out, aunt Mary; little Fairy 

 knows what we are talking about; she knows 

 her papa and her mamma are coming home 

 to-day!" 



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