I was rubbed and stroked, and had to run about offering my paw to every one.

Jim and little Billy licked my face, and Bella croaked out, "Glad to see you, Joe.

Had a good time?
How's your health ?" We soon settled down for the winter.

Miss Laura began going to school, and came home every day with a pile of books under her arm.

The summer in the country had done her so much good that her mother often looked at her fondly, and said the white-faced child she sent away had come home a nut-brown maid.
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