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Show Onlr l Hog. We warn all crying, every one of ill. I atlitr declared It wat trnoko that bad got Into hit eyee and made tlum tmait; but mothar threw her apron over htr head and tat rocking and eobbtug ror ten mlnutit. rtmho aud I Just threw oursclvei down ou the flier by poor l.eo, and I took his dear old tbaggy lieu In my lapand Ihe hot tetrt dni d one by one: anil I'lm lw elted lilt iioor old still ears ami smoothed out hit thin gray lialrs; and than wu look oil Ihe obi brass collar that waa marked all over with hltro glyiblcelhatwo had scratched with plus In the roud days when be first wore It; than we cried again, and Jurt then In walked HUlm Toots, and be didn't seem to know what to do when be taw in nil so distressed; ho looked at ui and at l.eo: tin n lio took out hit liaiidkrrchlcfandgMehli nose a resi Huu lay-school blowing, and said kind of husklly,- "iVell, Ita willed to feel s'lsd Anybody would upios it was a jei. aou; 'taint only h Uogt' Ibatlutt mtdo u. nit ful worn! There wasn't nny luaten ror him lo goto, and wu know wo wo '1 never siehlm ngaln, and wo couldn't re. numhrriiny llto without I.io, wn weru tueh little tots win u he came to us, and he had It eu one of the family all the time. 1'atlicriited lo lecture lilin lust the aamaa be did ui children: 'Where did 1 tea you today, tlrj" h would say; over lo Mr. .Modioli's also Haling with that dog that ttiwlsT Hhanie!" And then l.eo would whlue, and pntly soon lather would say, "go lo ld sir!" and lie would tuiak nirto hit box In the Urk'thid audlloHwaku all night to prulut us whllo wualcjt, and lie nevir oncu 111 fourteen jiart wat forgetful of hla trust and he was "only a dog," Only a dugl Why, w at tin re over a time when we went racing home from nuoollhat l.eo hadn't met ui lialf ay, to rucu with ut and do all aorta r f funny tricks at our bidding? And how proud wv had alwaje been of him, Willi ids handsome, alatety ireteiice audtuixrlor luanmre, and how tafe wofolt toliuarlilt dioii elicited Lurk at we wint to slie Well, death had found lilm, lure enough, un I wo burrlid him out lu tho iron, In a little hollow where he loved tn Ho on hot summer d and I'll re will lie no resurrection for Mm, th ugh there win m fur tlio vll.il tulif he ke t from our doors; but nonu the le, lu looklug over hit hunct blanuleM lift, In which he was never ralthlcst to any, uvnii the smallclt trust, I dure a ply lolilm tho Mailer's iueil ii pralset i'Wi II dona, good and rjlthfel nrvnut," Ihougli, nt Knulre TuuUnld, ", uianmlu u iUn."lh Irut I ret JYat |