YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



needle was stitching through the ragged 

 edges of his wound, and the doctor saw it in 

 his eyes, and said: 



'I believe you'd do it right over again, 

 you old rascal, you!' 



Sportum was just saucy enough to thump 

 out: ' Yes, I would!' with three sharp raps 

 of his tail, which was the only part he could 

 move w T hile he was being sewed up, and he 

 gave me a sly wink out of the corner of his 

 eye. 



I had seen the doctor, too, leave his busy 

 cares to row T out hastily and rescue from a 

 watery grave a fledgling robin who had es- 

 sayed too boldly on his untried w T ings. So 

 tenderly did he feel toward every little living 

 thing, that I had perfect trust in him. I 

 had heard mamma say: 



The doctor has more of the spirit of the 

 Great Physician, who healed and comforted 

 by the sea of Galilee, than many a louder- 

 mouthed professor, who has never thought 

 of all the tender creatures outside the pale 

 of man, nor read, between the lines of Holy 

 Writ, God's constant admonition to be kind 

 to all His children, even His little four- 

 footed ones.' 

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