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who was used to a fond mother's kiss and the child to eat when she awoke, and,
care every night. with a parting kiss, she bade her and Joe
 As she tucked her into the little bed, good-by, and Sally and Dobbin trotted
"Matildy said: away towards the city.
 Seems to me, Joe, she looks some Just as Pet's papa and mamma were
like that ere little city gal who was up to sitting down to a very sad and desolate
Pearson's farm last summer. It could n't breakfast, Joe drove up to the gate, and,
be her, though, could it? in a moment more, Pet was folded in her
 "Well, Matildy, I do believe it is!" mother's arms.
exclaimed Joe. I've been a wondering' "Where has my darling been ? asked
all day what child she looked like. I'll papa, when mamma could stop kissing
just step up to Pearson's farm and ask the child, so as to let him have "his turn,"
William to come and take a peep at her, "and who is this, whom we must thank
and, if 'tis she, they can tell me where her for bringing you home ?"
folks live. Matildy, you 're a master hand I runned away, papa," said Pet, smil-
at finding' out things!" and Joe laughed. ing, "and this is 'Joe'" said she, running
 When he had fed Dobbin and Sally up to the good man who had taken such
and rested a little while, he went out on care of her, and lifting up her face for
his errand and soon returned, bringing a kiss. "I love you, Joe !" she said,
with him Farmer Pearson and his buxom and papa and mamma, after hearing his
little wife. The first glimpse the good account of the adventures of the preced-
woman had of the sleeping child con- ing day, thought that they loved him, too.
vinced her that it was indeed little Pet They could not scold the dear little
Dinsmore, who had boarded at the farm runaway, who had caused them such dis-
the previous summer, with her papa and tress and grief; but only caress and pet
mamma. her and thank the dear Lord again and
 There was much surprise that it was again, for bringing her safely home.
indeed the very child whom they both The next summer the whole family
remembered so well, trotting about the went again to "Pearson's Farm," at
farm and hunting eggs, and Joe was Brookside, and Pet and Joe became fast
heartily glad that he was now able to find friends. Matildy, also, was very fond of
her father's house without difficulty, as the child, and every fall, they both send
Farmer Pearson had his address. Pet a barrel of Baldwin apples from their
 Pet slept sweetly all night, and very own tree.
early the next morning, before she had Amanda Jane is no longer in exist-
awaked, Joe took her very gently in his ence, but Pet, though older and wiser, is
arms and carried her out to the wagon. just as sweet a child as ever, and just as
where he laid her down in some soft hay. dear to all her friends as in the old child-
"Matildy put in a generous lunch for ish days.