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Show wmmK HAPPY.fUPPIit.- At last the IrMk JMtter puppies had their eyea openetflMMy Mm eyes they had and their, heim' were ao smooth and soft Their ears were long and their hair waa of a woaderfal red-brown red-brown shade, long and also very soft They looked very much like their mother only much, much smaller. They were, tiny and they cared more about sleep than anything else la the world. Adventures might be all right later on, Put for the present sleep was the most glorious thing. They would fall over each other and any way they fell they would go sound asleep. Such strange positions as they got Into when they slept, but as long as It did not bother them the mother let them alone. "My beautiful puppies," she said to herself as she looked at them. When they nestled very dose to her she look ed out of the window of the tool .room In the barn, where their home waa for the present and thought: "I wish I could always keep my ptn plea jafe la here and away from the world and dangers." Then she would look out of the window win-dow again and once more down at her puppies aad she would think of the dog shows where they would win prises, for they were perfect, very perfect and they were her own puppies I But they seemed so safe and sleepy now and she hated to think ahead of all the troubles that might come to them. They might be sold to people who didn't love and understand animals, ani-mals, but ahe didn't think of that long, for she knew her mistress would be. very, very careful she loved the puppies pup-pies too. After a time the puppies were almost grown up and In u little while after there was great excitement The puppies pup-pies did not understand It, but the mother did. She had been to many a dog show and how many prises she had won I She could never count them for she really couldn't be bothered with adding and such things she wanted to watch her beautiful grown-up pup plcsl For she could hardly believe that they were no longer babies. "We're going to the. show," she whispered whis-pered to them, "that Is what all the excitement means., We're going to win ribbons and prises, my beautiful ones, and our mistress will be so happy and glad." The next day they went the whole family of puppies and the mother. The judge were looking at ell the dogs. "This Irish' setter family beats them all," they said. :And each grown--poppy and the mother won prises. They received the best ribbons of all til hew delighted their mistress was, to be sure. Vow," said their mother, "you will aot leave me, for yoa will come to other shows at other times. I have The Puppies Were About drown Up. tried to keep you bcautlfnl and well and, so has. my mistress. Now she Is so pleased ,that you won prises that she will not think of giving you away." And though tho puppies were almost grown-up "they nestled close to their mother as though they were very young and said, "We're happy that there are dog shows, mother, If It means we will not leave you." And they barked their Joy I Crowds stopped to look at them and they copied their mother, and stood and looked as she did. And when their mother heard the people say how fine she was they noticed she .wagged her tall, ao they did the very same thing when people admired them I - When some of the dogs snarled and were cross the Irish setters looked at their mother as If to say, "Peoplo won't want' to look at them If they're cross." But their mother answered, "Ton can't always blame them, my dears, for every dog hasn't the kind mistress that we have I And if a dog Is cross, very, very often it Is the fault of the master or mistress." So tho puppies who were almost grown-up barked more Joyously than ever when their mistress came back to thnnl |