YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



"Well, I never thought to see the day 

 when a dog of mine would do such a dread- 

 ful thing as this never! I don't know 

 what to think; I can't tell what to think; I 

 never could have imagined a dog of mine 

 doing such a dreadful thing as this!" 



The little abject figure crouched lower 

 and lower beneath his words and tone of 

 reproach; and so his master left him. When 

 he returned a few hours later he found a 

 changed dog, who bounded forth to meet 

 him so glad, so proud, prancing, skip- 

 ping, tail fairly wagging his little body, as 

 he led the way to the desecrated spot of the 

 noontide. Behold his labor of love and 

 atonement ! 



There the astonished master saw, with 

 wondering eyes, how the little creature had 

 worked for hours, drawing back the loosened 

 loam and stamping it down in place. There 

 were all his little claw-marks in the moist 

 edges, and, to crown his work of restoration, 

 he had gathered all the scattered bits of 

 turf which, in his morning's ruthless sport, 

 he had thrown so carelessly about, and 

 patted them in, all awry to be sure, but so 

 painstakingly. 

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