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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 up 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 r , 

 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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