THE LOST CHILD . . . . . . . . . . . . _Henry Kingsley_

GOODY GRACIOUS! AND THE FORGET-ME-NOT _John Neal_

A FADED LEAF OF HISTORY . . . . . . . _Rebecca Harding Davis_

A CHILD'S DREAM OF A STAR . . . . . . _Charles Dickens_

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A DOG OF FLANDERS.

BY OUIDA


Nello and Patrasche were left all alone in the world.

They were friends in a friendship closer than brotherhood. Nello was a
little Ardennois,--Patrasche was a big Fleming. They were both of the
same age by length of years, yet one was still young, and the other was
already old. They had dwelt together almost all their days; both were
orphaned and destitute, and owed their lives to the same hand. It had
been the beginning of the tie between them, their first bond of
sympathy; and it had strengthened day by day, and had grown with their
growth, firm and indissoluble, until they loved one another very greatly.