YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



trampled snow-field, with its pale-faced 

 sleepers and white, waiting steed, with 

 wind-blown mane, faded like mist from our 

 sight : 



'These great painters have drawn the 

 spirit of their pictures from the noble, loving 

 nature of the animals they delineate and 

 their own insight into them, and our homage 

 to their work is in due proportion to our 

 own insight into and acquaintance with these 

 faithful lives God has placed in our keeping, 

 to aid and comfort us. Neither are they 

 ours alone they belong to Him, and He 

 will require them at our hands, the same as 

 our fellow man's." 



I had never seen any of these kind men 

 mamma was talking about; they had never 

 been down to our island; but now I had 

 seen some of their noble horses and dogs, 

 who could talk and cry just like people, I 

 put all she told us about them into my little 

 story. 



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