YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



though they had administered punishment; 

 but mamma never had cause to punish me 

 again, for that very evening her friend Mrs. 

 Q called, and the conversation nat- 



urally turned on me, how beautiful I 

 was, -- but oh! the tribulations and trials 

 of my mischief! 



" I don't believe it does one bit of good to 

 whip her," said mamma; "she just seemed 

 to think it was some severe humor that the 

 wearing of my black cloak had put me into, 

 for the little sensitive thing shudders and 

 looks askance at sight of it now." 



"No, indeed," answered Mrs. Q , "I 



never whipped my lovely King Charlie 

 when he was a puppy; his little teeth ached, 

 same as hers do, so I just gave him some 

 things for his very own to play with and 

 have in his basket, an old slipper, among 

 the rest, to bite and pull on." 



"That's a good, sensible idea, and Aleck, 

 I wish you would get little Fairy a nice new 

 rubber ring and ball to-morrow morning; 

 and I shall let her have that fur muff she 

 seems to love so, right in her basket." 



So the hard rubber ring, and nice new 

 ball, that would bounce and roll, were 

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