YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



though I didn't love the feeling of the cold 

 water very well, for I wasn't a water-dog, still 

 I would wade out to the boats and jump 

 aboard. 



I would play around, so happy, all day, 

 because I could be with them on the quiet 



island, and watch the white sea-gulls and 



swift kingfishers wheel and dart above the 



waves, and listen to the host of singing birds 



that gathered in the shady green trees, or 



twittered around me in the bright sunshine. 



Papa nor mamma would not let a single 



hunter come on the island, and the seabirds 



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