use for one thing she answered up so promptly that it seemed like a dictionary speaking and for another thing where could they find out whether it was right or not for she was the only cultivated dog there was by and by when i was older she brought home the word a dog s tale one time and worked it pretty hard all the week at different making much and despondency and it was at this time that i noticed that during that week she was asked for the meaning at eight different and flashed out a fresh definition every time which showed me that she had presence of mind than culture though i said nothing of course she had one word which she always kept on hand and ready like a life a kind of emergency word to on when she was likely to get washed overboard in a sudden way � that was the word s when she happened to fetch out a long word which had had its day weeks before and its prepared gone to a dog tale her pile if there was a stranger there of course it knocked him for a couple of minutes then he would come to and by that time she would be away down the wind on another tack and not expecting anything so when he d hail and ask her to cash in i the only dog on the inside of her game could see her canvas a moment � but only just a moment � then it would belly out and full and she would say as calm as a summer s day it s with or some long of a word like that and go placidly about and away on the next tack perfectly comfortable you know and leave that stranger looking profane and embarrassed and the the a dog s tale floor with their tails in and their faces with a and it was the same with phrases she would drag home a whole phrase if it had a grand and play it six nights and two es and explain it a new way every time � which she had to for all she cared for was the phrase she wasn t interested in what it meant and knew those dogs hadn t wit enough to catch her anyway yes she was a she got so she wasn t afraid of anything she had such confidence in the ignorance of those creatures she even brought anecdotes that she had heard the family and the dinner guests laugh and shout over and as a rule she got the of one chestnut a dog s tale another chestnut where of course it didn t fit and hadn t any point and when she the she fell over and rolled on the floor and laughed and in the most insane way while i could see that she was wondering to herself why it didn t seem as as it did when she first heard it but no harm was done the others rolled and privately ashamed of themselves for not seeing the point and never suspecting that the fault was not with them and there wasn t any to see you can see by these things that she was of a rather vain and frivolous character still she had virtues and enough to make up i think she had a kind heart and gentle ways � a dog s tale and never for done her but put them easily out of her mind and forgot them and she taught her children her and from her we learned also to be brave and prompt in time of danger and not to run away but face the peril that threatened friend or stranger and help him the best we could without stopping to think what the cost might be to us and she taught us not by words only but by example and that is the best way and the and the most lasting why the brave things she did the splendid things she was just a soldier and so modest about it � well you couldn t help admiring her and you couldn t help her not even a king charles span a dog s tale could remain entirely in her so as you see there was more to her than her education ii hen i was well grown at last i was sold and taken away and i never saw her again she was broken hearted and so was i and we cried but she comforted me as well as she could and said we were sent into this world for a wise and good purpose and must do our duties without take our life as we might find it live it for the best good of others and never mind about the results they were not our affair she said men who did like this would have a noble and beautiful reward lo m � � � � � � a dog tale by and by in another world and although we animals would not go there to do well and right without reward would give to our brief lives a and dignity which in itself would be a reward she had gathered these things from time to time when she had gone to the school with the children and had laid them up in her memory more carefully than she had done with those other words and phrases and she had studied them deeply for her good and ours one may see by this that she had a wise and thoughtful head for all there was so much lightness and vanity in it so we said our and looked our last upon each other through our tears and the last thing she said ii a dog s tale � keeping it for the last to make me remember it the better i think � was in 