YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



He knew, now, why they wept, and, with a 

 little wailing sob, he threw himself down- 

 ward upon his cushion, his nose between his 

 tiny paws, with a gesture of despair the 

 master could never come to him, but he 

 would go to the master. 



Then, there was her story of cunning little 

 "Snap," that keenest and purest of black- 

 and-tans. When he was just emerging 

 from his puppy pranks, his master, the 

 father of our little lady, came home from 

 his office at noon one day to discover, near 

 the house, a most unsightly break in his 

 green, velvety lawn, which was his especial 

 pride and pleasure. 



Little eager, digging paws, egged on by a 

 little black nose, that scented imaginary rats 

 or moles while they made the dirt fly, had bur- 

 rowed this black hole in the fine green turf. 



The master called for poor little Snap, and 

 he came, trembling and cringing, pleading 

 "Guilty" from his crestfallen ears to his 

 slinking tail. But the master, whose heart 

 was kind, did not punish him; he only said, 

 as he pointed to the sad blemish on the 

 smoothly shaven lawn, and looked re- 

 proachfully at the little shivering culprit: 



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