Show I II I SKETCH a f TE T OF OF C A I f 1 I It WI was da day at t the c Home and tle the small mal children that had ben hous housed I up a all winter were a about ut the yard rd I warm g sun enJoying I as 5 only children UI that t have b bOon en of f e u ng but the I bare n Ue r life n nAg I As Ag t the tru trusted turned In at the gate gatea te tea e a a little kot knot f b boys gathered about her on the se a br brood d or of young oung chickens about their heir mthr mother Se See the Itte ittie fower rund lisped tiny one showing a a lore More foer fowers ron In oos bon bonnet I net ed a b who had climbed to a step and was making a a minute study y of the trustees hat May lIay I pick one caine tom from the s same e Ups lips Yes Just one I In a moment the of rio lo Jt lets and color colorIn In the ot of the group and gup being at as It they were the rel teal article p I Then the at had to b be produced ad and It its ticking heard b by Rh paced placed o on the different nos nose audits I case Oin b the stronger r Iuni S i 4 0 Apart from Com the group sO g a nd hey boy a sturdy pugnacious little rh chap p pHe pI I He temporarily Jo h tio home ho it while his parents were hoth e ci I Is a failure Johnnie how bow do you tU like ith I us the trustee I Uc 01 Oh I like te IU it Then as t aed aged lance J t go o on nit he added added with S Imp I My father Is 3 a dangerous Ocar Oscar the timid one dr drew w closer cinser a aI I if seine of this thin vaunted dan might extend to the SOi soil I Oscar had been with us s four of 11 hi six years er He had to fe ot or his own age come and go W o home or of tb lr ver very own many times He had foyer been chosen bEc se he ws was shy ag and the u kIl that carried other others away I In ain e sent Jm I washed and comb ti et r lr Uon to th the mma mamma Thu see bs boys are not in demand anti and i i a are only ten taken when the they are I ibl ible TO Tb be first In some hert heart Is ii f a I r desire common to aU all humanity and so hope bure burned steadily in Oscars smal smell b bosom m mOne One lay day a former playmate or of O Os cli cled called at the home wIt with his hla new mo He was resplendent In iii n a lt lit litI I tie Lord Fauntleroy suit and looked so solIne I Inne lIne that his der dearest friend hardly knew him Admiration and longing longings bre re In Oscars pale pinched fae lace In I I hIs intensity he pe twisted his hanker handkerchief chief Into hard knot knots as af he be listened to tor r th the mother She told what n a c on fort and nd delight the adopted bo boy was he ha had paid for Cor his cr care over and ander andover over er by loving them and 10 how luck lucky they oy were to get him himOn On Oscar could bear I it no longer He Hegre gre grew bold ld enough to a sleeve a whisper mournfully I h I wish I had ad ah me mam mamot Tsp ot o my V OW burst int into loud weeping ad adl and andl l pt not alone I |