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the old place he had occupied when a boy in the family pew,
Flora did not wait till the objectors had formed a resolution;
she advanced steadily in her line of march in the rear of her
master, and lay down in her festival blue ribbon at his feet,
with the coolness of unchallengeable right. It would have
been impossible to dislodge her then. As it was, she soon
stilled the alarm she had raised, by remaining perfectly quiet,
and behaving as if she had attended church every Sunday
from her puppyhood ; like Scotch collies that wait discreetly
on the diets of worship in pastoral Presbyterian kirks. But
I am bound to confess that was the first and last occasion on
N which Flora went to church.














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