Page 34 - The Little sister of Wilifred

36 The Little Sister o f W iUfred.

pied, the stable too had an inmate,—
a beautiful little chestnut mare, which

oddly enough received from its mistress

the name of Black Beauty.
“ J don’t see why not.'1 Wilifred said,

when her brother Arthur objected to

this. I knew a girl once who was
named Lily, and she was just as dark

as an Indian. You have named your

horse Colonel, but he is 110 more a
colonel than my horse is black/7

And Arthur at once confessed that

Wilifred, as usual, had made her
point

The Doctor bought two very fine

dogs,— a mastiff and a Gordon setter.

Then a collie was offered to him, which
was much too handsome an animal to

be refused-. Arthur also had his pointer.

But to whomsoever the dogs belonged,
they were all of them devoted to Wili-