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She went and gathered her apples, gave them as she had planned, and set off with her
basketful to old Patty’s cottage.

Granny was watching for her when she came back.

“Well, dear, did you like your walk all by yourself?”

“ Pretty well,” said Maisie, “but I was not alone, Dandy went with me. Oh, granny,
came and asked him to go fora
I’m going with my little girl;
her.” And oh, granny, then
nearly ran home, but Dandy
to have him! And then I

must put it down; so we
blackberries are and rested.
at the birds and the sky,
floating by—such a soft

he was so good! Miss Jenkins’s little dog
walk, and Dandy put his legs stiff and said,‘No,
it’s her birthday, and I’m not going to leave ;
there came some gooses and hissed, and 1.
drove them out of the way, and I was glad
was tired, and the basket got so heavy I
sat down under the hedge where the

  
   
    
 
    
 
  
  
 
  

It was sonice there! I looked
and a little cloud came

little white cloud—and I thought perhaps there
it. And I said my
Dandy, but he didn’t

was catching a fly

was an angel sitting on
last hymn all through to
attend very well; he
that would want to sit on his nose.
“Then we went on; and the lame
boy was so pleased with the apples,
granny. And there was no gooses coming
back, and we ran nearly all the way. Isn't
Dandy a dear boy? Granny, will you write all about Dandy in my birthday letter to
father, and tell him how good he has been ?”

“Dear child!” said granny, “I will tell him that you are both of you grand-

mother’s pets.”