YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



attention to this spool, and twisted and 

 pulled away upon it. The gentleman and 

 lady had seated themselves at the table, and 

 were looking across at each other, and talk- 

 ing about it being the seventeenth anniver- 

 sary of their wedding-day. I was listening, 

 but could not well understand such big 

 words. 



"But we feel just as young as we ever 

 did," said the cheery gentleman. "I don't 

 feel a day over twenty-five!" Just then, I 

 pulled the spool from under the corner of 

 the flower-stand - 



Slam-bang! Crash! over went the great 

 wire stand; the flower-pots flew off, and 

 rolled, some of them, clear under the dinner- 

 table. 



But before the pots stopped rolling I 

 scampered away, like a little race-horse, 

 back to the lady's room, cleared the floor 

 with a bound, and dove between the em- 

 broidered shams, under the blankets, to the 

 very foot of the big soft bed, which ever 

 after was my ark of refuge. The bedstead 

 had a great shining top, with a raised round 

 panel of the burled walnut, and carved urns 

 at either side; and here the lady found me, 



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