YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



velvet blanket and big blue bow, and go up 

 to the minister's house, and around the little 

 village among the church people, with aunt 

 Mary. I would caper along the country 

 road, tossing my head and looking back at 

 her, to see if she were coming, and she found 

 there was no need for using my chain, where 

 all was so safe. 



I followed the doctor around, when he 

 was planting the big vegetable garden, for 

 it had made him well to work out in the 

 bright, fresh air, and he had always led such 

 a busy life, he loved to be doing something. 



The singing blue-birds, the red-breasted 

 robins, and the sweet song-sparrows flitted 

 around us, coming in crowds to meet the 

 spring. 



" The voice whose welcomes were so glad, 



Feet pattering like summer showers, 

 The dark eyes which would look so sad 

 If gathering tears were dimming ours. " 

 ELIZABETH CHARLES. 



The sweet mayflowers had come and 

 gone, and the rosebuds were opening their 

 red hearts to .the warm sunshine, when, one 

 lovely morning, early at breakfast, I pricked 



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