YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



' Ye-ep, ye-ep, ye-ep ! Clear the track, you 

 poor, idle slow-pokes! Can't you see I'm 

 telephoned for? 



'Ye-ep, ye-ep, ye-ep! Can't you see 

 I've got to gain a half-mile on a rat, and 

 catch him, before he runs the length of my 

 master's store?" 



And on he would tear, the people turning 

 their heads to watch him, and laughing as 

 they went, for in the little Western city many 

 had become familiar with Foxy and his 

 cunning little tricks, and they knew well 

 that he'd been telephoned for. 



Finally, to cheer her lonely hours, the 

 little lady took into her heart a dainty King 

 Charles spaniel, whom the daughter of the 

 household christened "Corea." I was in 

 a flutter of excitement when a letter came 

 telling mamma of her possible advent ahead 

 of the two ladies, the dear friends she was 

 expecting. 



That very afternoon there came the sud- 

 den rumble of wheels over the long red 

 bridge, and up drove the express with a 

 mysterious little leathern traveling-case, 

 with wire bars, like a bird-cage, on one side. 

 Mamma brought it in the big room and shut 

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