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back after me. I told him that he must go 

 home for I could not have him, but all he did 

 was to sit np and beg, so I gave him a few flips 

 with my handkerchief, and then put him over 

 the park railings. When I got to Chapel, 

 there was Topsy waiting for me on the step, so 

 I said : — " Well if you'll be a good dog, you 

 can come." I took him up under my coat 

 skirt, marched in, and sat down in my pew, 

 sitting him up on the seat by my side. I held 

 up my finger to him to be quiet, and quiet as a 

 burglar under a bed he was, until the minister 

 said "Amen," and shut up his book, when 

 Topsy kept touching me on the arm with his 

 paw, looking up into my face the while. As 

 soon as the last hymn was given out, I slipped 

 him — Topsy, not the minister — under my coat, 

 and took him out, and that's the only time he 

 ever attempted to come to Chapel. 



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