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December i, 1909. THE PRESBYTERIAI
he had taken them up and brought them here where
the sun would shine upon them.
And now they were all coming up, and little buds
were beginning to show.
It was the sunshine that had done it.
"Sunshine will do everything," she had heard him
say.
WIlV wouldn't it riirn momnm?
She would go and carry some to her. She had been
out there so long, she knew she must be just full of
sunshine, and maybe if she went into the house and
sat down quietly where mamma was, and smiled and
looked happy like the sunshine, it would make mamma
feel better.
So she stood quite still for a moment in the full,
brierht sunshine, and drew a threat deen hrenth anH thnn
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went back to the house, and, carrying her flowers with
her, crept softly up the stairs, and into the room where
mamma was lying on the couch.
She went in so very quietly that mamma hardly
noticed her as she drew her little rocking-chair and
sat in it, and began a soft little humming to herself,
smiling all the time.
Presently mamma looked up.
"Why, Lottie," she said, "how happy you look! Are
you thinking about something nice? What is it, dear?"
She sat up and looked kindly at Lottie's sweet, little,
round face.
"I love you so much," Lottie said, drawing her chair
up close to mamma, and laying her flowers in her lap;
"'and I thought I'd come in and see if I couldn't make
you feel better."
"You dear little girl!' mamma answered. "Your
bright, happy face and those lovely blossoms have done
me good already. You are just like a ray of sunshine."
Lottie clapped her hands, but very softly, so as not
to disturb mamma.
"That's just what I wanted," she cried. "I'm just
going to try to smile and look haopv all the time, no
matter if I don't feel so, for I'm going to be a sunshine
doctor."
Mamma kissed her very tenderly.
"We need your sunshine, darling," she said. "You
will make everybody better and happier, if you will always
carry the sunshine with you."
"I am going to?I really am!" Lottie said, nestling
into mamma's arms. "I am going to be a sunshine doctor
all my life!"
And so far she truly has been.?Ex.
POLLY'S PICTURE.
How Ned Snapped the Little Girl and All Her Pets.
It was a bright spring morning, and all the animals
on the Meadowbrook farm had been given their
breakfast, and the Piggywig family had settled down
to a cozy nap. Suddenly there was heard a great noise,
and rushing out in the apple orchard Old Mother
Piggy wig jumped up on her hind legs and looked over
the fence of her sty to see what it was all about. The
little pig that went to market, and the little pig that
stayed at home, also jumped up, quite as excited as
their mother. Then the little pig that had roast beef
and the little pig that had none, woke up, and they,
too, scampered about, wishing to know what was go*
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ing on down under the apple trees. But before Old
Mother Piggy-wig could tell them, the little pig that
one day could not find his way home found a big hole
in the lower board of the sty, and at once shouted:
Oh, I see what it is! It is little Polly going to have
her picture taken."
And sure enough, there was Polly's brother Ned,
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Polly came?guess what!
Well, first there came Blackie, the cat; then came
Banty, the hen; and then came Gyp, the dog. And
such a mew-mewing, and cluck-clucking and bow-wowing
you never heard!
Polly had often had her picture taken, but it was
always with her papa or her mamma, and she had
never had'her picture taken with her pets. So brother
Ned had promised that on her birthday he would take
her picture with all of her pets?if they would only
keep still. This day was Polly's birthday, and, as the
weather was fine, her brother had told her to follow
him out to the orchard.
Ned fastened his camera on its three sprawling legs,
while Polly tried to gather her pets around her. But
by this time Blackie, the cat, was chasing a squirrel
(though he did not catch him), and Banty, the hen,
was away off scratching for worms, and Gvn. the Hno
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was barking at a bossy calf down by the brook, for,
of course, Polly's pets did not know it was her birthday
and that they were to have their pictures taken
with her.
Polly called as loud as she could: "Here, Blackie.
Blackie; here, Banty, Banty; here, Gyp, Gyp," and as
quick as a wink the animals came running up to her.
At first she sat down, but all three of her pets got
in her lap until you could scarcely see Polly behind
them. That would not do, of course, because it was
Polly's picture that was the most important.
Fnally, she stood up and made her pets stand up,
too. Then she had more trouble, for Gyp wanted to
stand next to her, and so did Banty, and so did Blackie,
but she told them if they were not good and did not
stand just where she put them, they could not have
their pictures taken at all. She even said she would
get the little Die- that could not find hie mA
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would have her pictures taken with him. They did
not like that, so they promised to be good. She stood
Banty on one side of her, and Gyp on the other side,
and then she put Blackie on one end next to Banty.
But Gyp and Blackie jumped around so lively that
brother Ned ran into the house and brought out Polly's
toy cow, and stood her next to Blackie, and that kept
him quiet, because he was afraid the cow would hook
him with her horns?he did not know it was not a
real cow. Then Ned brought out Polly's toy lion and
put him next to Gyp, and that kept him quiet, because
he thought the lion would eat him up?he did
not know it was not a real lion.
So after they were all nice and quiet. Ned called out:
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?Everett Wilson in St. Nicholas.
The cross still conquers men, and he who will cling
to it for the love he has will find a crown upon the
rugged bars.