He is sure to grow up a great and good man, 

 he thinks so much more of saving these poor 

 little dogs than he does of his play. The 

 world will know and bless his name some 

 day, for his heart will grow big with pity for 

 all God's creation." 



Papa got the cutest thing that winter, - 

 a "magic lantern" he called it, --that 

 would make little pictures into great big 

 real ones, all over the big sheet mamma 

 would hang up across the whole end of the 

 parlor. And stormy winter evenings they 

 would stay home with me, and invite the 

 little life-saver boy and his kind mamma, 

 and other friends from other parts of the big 

 house. And the little boy and I just held 

 our breath, as I sat in the chair beside him 

 and one of his little foundlings, to see the 

 beautiful great pictures papa made. 



I thought they were truly real, and when 

 it was all dark in the great parlor, and out 

 of the black darkness we could see the lovely 

 big Scotch collie dog crying all alone beside 

 his dear master who never could wake any 

 more to pat his silky head, or give him a 

 kind word, or buckle on his ow r n sword, or 

 don his fallen plume, for he couldn't feel 

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