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A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY--IN TWO PARTS.

[Illustration: PART I.]

"MOTHER! from this moment, behold me, my own master!
Yes, madam, I am old enough. I mean just what I say."

[Illustration: PART II.]

AND, but for a sudden and unforeseen disaster,
The puppy might have kept his resolution to this day.

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THE STICKLEBACK BELL-RINGERS

BY C. F. HOLDER.


A certain pond in the country was once peopled with a number of
turtles, frogs, and fishes which I came to consider my pets, and
which at last grew so tame that I fed them from my hands. Among them,