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My dog the beloved Polly, after committing some undiscovered offence extremely is at such times affectionate towards me; & this leads me to relive a little anecdote; when I was a very small boy, I had committed some offence so that my conscience was troubled; & when I saw met by Father  I launched so much affection on him, that he at once asked what I had done & asked begged me to confess.— I was so astonished utterly confused at his suspecting ab anything, that I have remembered the scene to the present day; & it seems to me that Polly's frame of mind & mine in those old days or in such occasions (down not more of 8 feet) is much the same as was my frame & this  curious [words illeg] more for I was not then in

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