. Stories for the household . tan-yard. She had herpapers with her, and we advised her to put them in an envelope, and towrite thereon the address of the proprietor of the estate, GeneralWar-Commissary Knight, &c. She Listened to us attentively, seized the pen, paused, and begged usto repeatvthe direction slowly. AVe complied, and she wrote; but in the midst of the General War she stuck fast, sighed deeply, and said, I am only a woman! Her Puggie had seated itself on the A Great Grief. 97 ground while she wrote, and growled; for the dog had come with herfor amusement and for the sake of its he
. Stories for the household . tan-yard. She had herpapers with her, and we advised her to put them in an envelope, and towrite thereon the address of the proprietor of the estate, GeneralWar-Commissary Knight, &c. She Listened to us attentively, seized the pen, paused, and begged usto repeatvthe direction slowly. AVe complied, and she wrote; but in the midst of the General War she stuck fast, sighed deeply, and said, I am only a woman! Her Puggie had seated itself on the A Great Grief. 97 ground while she wrote, and growled; for the dog had come with herfor amusement and for the sake of its health; and then the bare floorought not to be offered to a visitor. His outward appearance wascharacterized by a snub nose and a very fat back. He doesnt bite, said the lady ; he has no teeth. He is like oneof the family, faithful and grumpy; but the latter is my grandchildrensfault, for they have teazed him : they play at wedding, to givehim the part of the bridesmaid, and thats too much for him. poor WAITING TO SEE PUGGIES GRAVE. And she delivered her papers, and took Puggie upon her arm. Andthis is the first part of the story, which might have been left out. PUGGIE DIED !! Thats the second part. It was about a week afterwards we arrived in the town, and put up atthe inn. Our windows looked into the tan-yard, which was dividedinto two parts by a partition of planks; in one half were many skinsand hides, raw and tanned. Here was all the apparatus necessary tocarry on a tannery, and it belonged to the widow. Puggie had died inthe morning, and was to be buried in this part of the yard: the grand-children of the widow (that is, of the tanners widow, for Puggie hadnever been married) filled up the grave, and it was a beautiful grave—it must have been quite pleasant to lie there. The grave was bordered with pieces of flower-pots and strewn overwith sand; quite at the top they had stuck up half a beer bottle, withthe neck upwards, and that was not at all allego
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