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Updated: June 28, 2025
No doubt it was the simple and natural expression of a grateful heart for a really important service; but I cared nothing about that. She blushed as I looked at her, and stooped to pat the jealous and impatient Dumps. "Sit here, darling, on this easy-chair," said Mrs McTougall; "you know the doctor allows you only half an hour or an hour at most to-night; you may be up longer to-morrow.
He arose, upset the poker and pistol with a hideous clatter, which was luckily too remote to smite horror into the heart of Mrs McTougall, and groped his way into the servants' hall. Lighting a paraffin lamp, he went to the scullery, using very unfair and harsh language towards my innocent dog. "Pompey, you brute!" the footman had already learned his name "hold your noise. There!"
"Willis but why do you start so? Now I am quite sure you have been more severely hurt than you imagine, and that my talking so much is not good for you." "No Edie no. Go on," I said firmly. "I have little more to tell," she continued. "Dear Dr McTougall had attended me in the hospital, and took a fancy to me. When I was well enough to leave, he took me home to be governess to his children.
The event however, gave them a lesson in gentleness to dumb animals which they never afterwards forgot, and which some of my boy readers would do well to remember. With a laudable effort to improve the occasion, Mrs McTougall carefully printed in huge letters, and elaborately illuminated the sentence, "Be kind to Doggie," and hung it up in the nursery.
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