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work agam. [ jumped up in the dog-cart ~—to which Tommy was harnessed - - and Tower Cottage was quickly reached. “Tommy carried us all the way from London to Winchelsea,” said Miss Terry, enthusiastically, “and he’ll take us back again. We put our luggage on board— Punch, this young rascal of a terrier, who scems to live only to bark, and Prince. You'll sec Prince—yes, and hear him, too, m a few minutes—for he’s at the cottage. At a

pretty roadside 1nn we found a wee

kitten—1t scemed to like me. Tt came running out to us and appcarcd lost. It gave such a funny httle whine, which scemed to say Me-e- ne-c,” so I chris- tencd 1t Minnie on the spot. Isn’t this country glorious? Isn’t 1t the place for a rest? But, wait a little! Have T been l? Yes, indeed. But we won’t talk about that; still, it

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reminds me of a little story, and I thought perhaps you might like to hear 1t, because some of the people n it have appeared in your Magazine. “We were stopping about a year ago at the IForest of Dean. There were

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a good many of us, among whom was Sir Morell Mackenzie. We made an excursion one day to I'mtern. On the road my maid called out that something had got into her cye, and that she was in great pain. We stopped at the next village, but the chemist’s shop was shut, the chemist being at church, for 1t was Sunday ; but Sir Morcll was bent on healing, and rang at the door, got down the different bottles himself, and with his own

TOWER COTTAGE—FRONT VIEW,

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