title: A Pug's Guide to Happiness: Unleash Your Inner Pugness
author:  Elaine Clayton 
description: Elaine Clayton is an artist, author/illustrator, Reiki Master and intuitive reader. Her books for children include illustrations for Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley and Gregory Maguire, author of the novel WICKED, the popular Broadway musical. Her books for adults on intuitive intelligence include MAKING MARKS: Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing. Elaine lives in Connecticut with her family where she works in her studio and is the mother of two sons and a pug-daughter named Georgia.
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  The Bliss of Solitude  
    
  
  
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  # The Bliss of Solitude
  
  
  ### Dorothy Canfield
  
  
  
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE last time I came from Europe, although I was supposed to be in charge of
  my pretty young niece, I did not appear on deck until the last day of the
  voyage. I was tired, and I knew that Puss had plenty of acquaintances on
  board. She is the soft-eyed, appealing, helpless sort of girl who is always
  looked after. When I finally ascended to the upper world, I was, therefore,
  both surprised and remorseful to find her looking troubled and almost
  distressed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Why, Puss, dear," I said, with a pang of compunction for my neglect, "what is
  the trouble? You haven't been lonely, have you, without me?"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  My niece looked at me strangely for a moment, and then said, with the oddest
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