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TILLIE TEXAS. 



At midnight she would get up and warm a bowl of milk, . Tillie 

 would sit up and clasp her paws around the bowl to hold it steady. 

 Then she drank all she wanted. After this she would lie down 

 again and suck her paw till she fell asleep. She made a humming 



noise all the while, that sounded like the buzzing of hundreds of 

 bees. 



When she grew older she took great delight in standing in the 

 wood-shed door and attracting a crowd of boys to the fence. When 

 she was tired of walking on her hind feet and holding a stick in her 

 paws she would go behind the door, and close it in the laughing 

 faces of the children. 



Tillie enjoyed jumping into a tub of water on a warm summer 

 day and splashing it all over herself. The little girls were careful 

 to draw their dresses close about them if they passed her in the 

 water; for she was very affectionate, and always wanted to give 

 them a hug with her wet paws. 



