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A S
When cook wen
What do you
Not lemons by i
Nor sugar by
I think she boug
But, oh. that t
She brought hon
Tucked underi
She called me t
And made me
And then I hear<
Somewhere in
And so cook bro
And set it on
With two wee I
The dearest li
And one is strii
And one is bis
And both to be J
To play with
HOW FLAX J
Flax was a brown d
Mrs. Wales. He was n<
honest eyes showed tht
Mr. and Mrs. Wales 1
where the neighbors v
. dog as a playfellow for
At the time of which
and Mrs. Wales were
porch had been taken a
get out of the front doc
straight down to the ?
gave out, so the carp
Wales had driven to to
Wales was left alone w
"Flax, you look afte
watch her," she said, as
let in the fresh spring a
after her chickens.
"I won't forget," cal
she could hurt herself ir
He began to draw v
and forgot everything <
her blocks, and he went
picture of the barn.
Mrs. Wales had just
little chickens from th<
when she heard a nois
but could not tell what
heard the same sound,
growling. She hurried
entered the front room,
ot the door holding Ba
knew, then, that she ha<
The baby had pushed t
fallen to the ground if
y
THE PRESBYTERI,
e Children
iURPRISE.
t out to market,
think she found?
the doyen,
the pound!
ht some groceries,
wasn't all!
ae something just for me
neath her shawl.
0 the kitchen,
guess and guess,
1 a little "meow"
cook's gray dress!
ught the basket out
a chair,
littens in it,
ttle pair.
)ed black-and-white,
ick as Jet,
ny very own,
and to pet!
?Hannah G. Fernald.
SAVED THE BABY.
log that belonged to Mr. and
o beauty, but one look into his
it he would be a good friend,
ived on a ranch in Colorado
/ere few; and they kept this
their two children,
i I am going to tell you, Mr.
rebuilding their house. The
way, and there was no way to
>r, as it was three or four feet
ground. One day the lumber
enters could not work. Mr.
wn, ten miles away, and Mrs.
ith the children.
;r Helen if Clyde forgets to
? she opened the front door to
ir. Then she went out to look
ieti ^iyae. meres no way
i this room, anyway."
wonderful things on his slate,
else. Helen was playing with
into the other room to make a
taken a mother with twenty
; nest into a nice clean coop,
e in the house. She listened,
it was. The next minute she
and realized that it was Fla*
to the house; and, .when she
she saw Flax leaning half out
iby Helen by the dress. She
i forgotten to hook the screen,
he door open, and would have
it had not heen for Flax. He
r
AN OF THE SOUTH.
was wise enough to know,
the baby, so lie growled 1<
came.
"Mother," said Clyde, 1
friVllt "T fnrornt nlinnt olc
O > t->"
I'm going to remember as ^
"And I will, too, for I
We must always be kind
saved our baby."?Sunday
HOW GOOD
"I touched the goal firs
herself 011 the grass and f;
The rest came running up
as hot and tired as Carrie.
"I wish I had a drink," <
"So do I," said Rob.
"I think I saw a drinkinj
of this path." said mamma
look for it?"
In a few minutes the chil
heart's content, giving the
Baby May.
"Isn' it good!" said Car
I couldn't wait another mi
dried up, and now I am re?
"Yes, indeed, water is or
mamma. "What should w
"We'd have to drink lent
"But how could we make
asked Bob, laughing.
"Well, then we could dri
"But cows would not g
did not have nice fresh wa
"And grass would dry up
thing to eat," Rob said ver
Mamma smiled. "Yes, 1
thing would dry up pretty
the dew which Gnd senHc ?
I was a girl we lived in low
the country where there w
and that year especially th<
dry all around us. We ha<
a river five miles away, anc
so you can see it did not ta
it. And then we had to b(
we could for cooking and
thing. How glad we wer<
"I'm glad we have plent;
said Carrie, and all the chi
Apples of Gold.
POOR LIT!
"Mamma, what do you tl
^1 ...i? ?
in uui stiiuui wihj never n
lias a rag doll, but not a re
her."
"Do you want to give lie
asked her mamma.
"Why, no, I hadn't thou
feel sorry for her. She liv
in a little bit of a house, and
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pwui .
"Perhaps you had bett<
August 18, 1909.
if he barked, lie would drop
Duder and louder until help
whose face was pale from
ter, but I never will again.
A-ell as Flax does."
forgot to hook the screen,
and good to Flax, for he
School Times.
IT TASTED.
it!" cried Carrie, throwing
inning herself with her hat.
one by one, all of them just
said Clare.
g fountain down at the end
. "Suppose we all go and
dren were drinking to their
first drink to Bennie and
rie. "It just seemed as if
nute, my throat was all so
idy to play again."
ie of our best friends," said
e do without it?"
onade," said Clare.
; lemonade without water?"
nk milk," said Clare,
ive milk very long if they
ter to drink," said mamma,
so they wouldn't have anyy
wisely.
that is true, Rob. Everysoon
without the rain and
D lovingly. One year when
fa, and we were in a part of
as never very much water,
; wells and cisterns became
.1 to get all our water from
1 it was brought in barrels,
ste very fresh when we got
e careful to use as little as
housekeeping and everyi
when the rains came!"
y of water right at home,"
ildren thought the same.? .
^LE EFFIE.
link? There is a little girl
ad a doll in her life! She
al one. I feel so sorry for
r one of your dolls, dear?"
ght of that, mamma, but I
es way down by the river
I guess her folks are awful
:r divide your playthings