YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



menting a good friend for life. They 

 thought God knew how to finish his work; 

 and they knew, too, that he would call all 

 to answer for every pain unnecessarily in- 

 flicted upon the defenseless creatures in- 

 trusted to the care of man. 



Kitty was full of fire and spirit, but she 

 was so thoroughbred she did not need even 

 to wear blinders, but rolled her great brown 

 eyes backward toward the pretty red- 

 wheeled phaeton, to see if doctor and aunt 

 Mary were safely seated. Then away she 

 flew, leading the way over hill and dale, past 

 the little seaside settlements and country 

 towns, with their small white church and 

 school-house, setting across the road from 

 each other on and on, till the bright 

 morning was melting into the hot noontide, 

 and all were getting warm and hungry ; then 

 reaching the wooded lane, we swept in 

 under the dark, shady fir-trees, and were 

 grateful to feel and hear the cool sea-breeze 

 singing in the branches. 



While the horses were being unharnessed, 



lightly blanketed, and tethered among the 



trees, to have their well-earned dinner of 



nice oats, brought along with our own bas- 



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