CHAPTER IX 



"THIS dog only, waited on, 

 Knowing that when light is gone, 



Love remains for shining. 

 This dog only, crept and crept 

 Next a languid cheek that slept, 

 Sharing in the shadow." 



ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 



AND now a big and happy change 

 came into my life. Papa and mam- 

 ma made themselves a beautiful 

 home on an island by the sea. They took 

 me with them as they paddled back and forth 

 during its building, and I learned to love a 

 boat as well as I did a horse. I would sit 

 for hours in the rocking rowboat, when it was 

 anchored, and play I was sailing; and al- 



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