XXV 
BREAKING HOME TIES 
It was with the greatest pleasure that I gave 
myself to the care of my babies ; and oh, with what 
pride I watched their progress from day to day, and 
how very happy I felt when at my call they would 
cease their playing and come and rest on my 
bosom. But, sad to tell, to every mother there 
comes a cruel and relentless day, when her darlings 
are taken from her. When that day has come 
and she mourns in her loneliness and sorrow, her 
only comfort then is the thought that she has so 
trained her little ones that they will be a pleasure 
and a joy to the people with whom they live. I 
know that this is what my dear mother endeavored 
to do for me, and the same I tried to do for mine. 
My kitties were about three months old, when 
one day Miss Dorothy called. Mistress called her 
“ Mrs. Fogg,” but to me she will ever be only my 
dear Miss Dorothy. 
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