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Show f f . 4 THE EKE R ,111 ERA LD, ' 4 p TO THE LITTLE GIRLS. r of despair; and Another another train stops; more shouting and How much work little' girls cotild do pounding another failuer; and the frightened boys, now, realized that they had for themselves if they would tihly try. but little hope from passing trains. They could learn to dre.ssqnake .so as .They knew that they would not be they can make their' own ejothes. missed at camp until! night, and there They could learn to wash and iron was no hope for, rescue from that quar- their own clothes.,'. They could .learn and make' beds. ter before morning, if even then they to scrub, should think of looking in this place for You see all these things could be done them, and hungry and worn out with by. little girls iFthey would only try. crying .and shouting, they prepared to I think all little girls ought to learn. to do things for themselves. spend the night as best they could. Fortunately it was nor cold, and i kneeling .in ihe darkness they repeated ..a ' the pra) ers their .mother had taught A SAD RESULT .. i, H y half-hou- -- ? -- , I . . wash-dishe- s, . r. f , -- t J , . v . themf and then Virgil added, solemnly Please,. God, 'send so ne ne to help us, out of here, and we will oe good boys for ever and ev.r, for Christs sakc.-- n Amen. And soon rhev were asleep in eachothars arms on the hard floor. For the first time in their short lives "did s reape what it was to be i ' . . - r f I . V . 4 , i 4 Hungry. It was hours npw.twenty-fou- r f yi v' .at M i'l v a the-boy- t . ri Of t they had tasted food, and the first S- - .,..0 ' sensation on exof was one awakening treme, hunger Perhaps it vas: .hunger that sharpened their; fqr noticeing that the mill. was. silent, it suddenly occured to Virgij that if he could in sdme way if. stop the mill so it would not work, the . section men (whose duty it was to look after it) would soon notice it, and come The aboveTepresents the skeletons J to find the cause of the trouble, ' and a man that didnt advertise. He.,dic then liberate them, while waiting for trade. . - - i to DC . CONTINUED. A ' |