YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



tender household pet has given me, when 

 they have lain down under an operation, 

 never to wake again, has haunted me for 

 many a day. No, madam, you love her 

 too well, I must be frank with you.' : 



Papa thanked him, in a sad voice, as he 

 drew rein at the station, and the kind 

 stranger stepped aboard the departing train. 

 I had heard his prophetic words, but I 

 knew it all before. 



But my own dear doctor, who had asked 

 for this consultation, said he could not bear 

 to give me up without every effort to save 

 me by milder means. 



I had seen him, so often, tenderly bind the 

 broken wing of some poor bird, and that of 

 Dandy Jim, the black crow, when the gale 

 once caught him, with his feathers dripping 

 wet, in the oak tree, and tore and broke his 

 poor wing. The doctor whittled two nice 

 little braces of light pine and dressed and 

 bound it, so it got well and handsome as ever. 

 I had seen him sew and dress old Sportum's 

 wounds, and even those of his enemy, when 

 he had gotten into a melee beyond his years, 

 in defence of me. Sportum wouldn't even 

 own he was sorry, not even when the sharp 



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