Bruno

n a prospecting tour, and returned bringing enthusiastic accounts of the climate and opportunities

ng; practically, it subjects him to endless trials and humiliations, so we never gave his state of health as a reason for the proposed change. Instead, we flourished my

roperty could be disposed of, we would tu

as our plans were announced, their parents asked us to give him to them when we were ready to star

ted him; so we readily consented; and we encouraged them to monopolize him as much as possible, so that we might see him comfortably settled before we star

ich then seemed almost as difficult as a trip to the moon. We locked up the empty house and slipped away to our boarding-place, while Brun

gencies, had taken Rebecca and her family, promising them "Jes' as good a home as I can gib'm, Miss Judith." It was a sad breaking

tho

e stairs, accompanied by a familiar clatter that made my heart stand still. The door burst open, and, before I could rise fro

!" I exclaimed, as s

fice door when I came out. He seemed half wild with delight at seeing

ve fallen in just in these two days! He has been

"I'd better go and get som

nswered. "At once,

tairs again, and soon returned wit

ing him and returning his glances of affection while he ate. When he had

ake him with us. I'll see the agent to-morrow. We must either take him, or ha

, it would be all right," answered I. "He is such a kn

oes at all, he must ride in baggage-cars, and we'll

since we first began to talk Florida. If we could have Bruno with us, I no longer dreade

and while we in the sleeper should be in a through car, he would have a number of changes to make,-one of them at early dawn, and another in the night. It would be necessary for Julius to see to these changes in person, in case Bruno proved to be unruly, wh

kind neighbors and friends full of good-byes and good wishes

o be a wild-goose chase, and that they expected to s

in, probably remembering his other journey on the cars, when he had left his first home to come alone to us in his puppyhood. When he saw Julius and realized that we wer

or something that had happened a day or two before. I had gone up by the old home to say good-by to an invalid neighbor, and there, on the sidewa

middle-aged cat, to be carried all those many miles! Then it might be weeks after we reached Florida before we decided where to settle. A dog, once there,

n't to be

go back and be contented with Aunt Nancy, I bade her a tearful goo

old R

o understand why I was seemingly so hard-hearted as to go off and leave her looking