Show AX ADOPTED mother cant we adopt n baby mrs walters looked up iu astonishment it the question liatto six alj annc there her blue eyes dancing her brown hair blown about her rosy checks by lie winal As there wad i small boy in frocks neaily two years younger t lian annc and si pair of sixteen months twins in the cradle the question did seem lass adopt a baby why my dear people only do eliat when god has not given them one said her 1 I could nut possibly caro of anby but I 1 could mamma id just do everything mary lowells mother lias adopted one and mary says its alio cun little thing but wo dont need it for we have rooi c thai other people two dear babies said glicr mother kindly seeing how in earnest she was well I 1 know that but cant we adopt something asked the child anxiously oh yes find some poor little motherless kitten a yellow one would be best cause yellow kittens arc mostly drowned this was bobs advice bob was nine ears old and a great aca sc dont want that I 1 can get heaps of cats without adopting them said the child well alien or n goose then being of a booso yourself you ditl know lint to do with it hut I 1 want something that thinks said anno after i moments thought not a thinking thing the lowells have got said bob pausing in the midst othis whittling it look s in a crout but it it can just scream said annc earnestly then ill buy you n dear little pig clial can squeal beautifully said bob make him ton mamma cried anne her eyes full of tears hes leasing me and I 1 do want to adopt something adopt me said bob id make ou ft nice big son I 1 dont want ou ive got you already said anno why my dear whom could you adopt asked her mother kindly you already liao a father a mother sisters and brothers uncles and buuts oh I 1 know bowl cried annc we any grandmother why cant wo adopt one of them well wo might if wr could find a stray old lady wandering abou tand look for ame mme ono to adopt her said her mother laughing while bob fairly danced with lun at thu idea its not such a bad thought said asinos mother when sho had got over laughing perhaps aunt betsy will consent to be adopted for a few months splendid ejaculated annc cant we go for her right away it will be so nice to have a grandmother in alic horito hoi ito so it will ami papa will drive over tu lexington Lox ington tomorrow to morrow and sec what shu thinks about it her mother replied ai nt betsy was alio childrens great aunt and aa annc expressed it plenty old enough to be a grandmother she lived biln a daughter and her eon biad borrowed what liello money she had on interest the sons wife was not an agreeable woman and considered her mother in law n great burden there waa ono other son whom people called wild and good for naught a wand cier in anno s mother knew that her dear old aunt was unhappy and hail long been thinking of asking her to the house for ii visit annas idea of adopting a grandmother gave rito thoughts anil her mother resolved to oner tho old lady a home lo 10 objection was made to this plan her son made liis mind easy about the money lie owed by paying in crest and troubling himel no further it was indeed delightful to feel that alio had a homo where everybody was kind and attentive n room with her books her knitting work her stocking basket close lo 10 her haud while lluvera and vines and pictures made alic walls and then to fed ali it sho ang alic adopted grandmother of videar lovable laug liing little child everybody but annc called glicr aunt acty to anno alone she waa grandma and tho old lady enjoyed thu distinction anno look glicr under her own special protection sho gathered blowers for her threaded glicr needle look glicr hand as they went to church and sit close by her in alio pew taking to let know that sho wis w is glicr adopted grandma feeling rather exultant over the fact that ilic herself had provided this luxury fur the family aunt betsy repaid lier with interest isho dressed dolls and cut whole though rather hideous families out of paper she knit bright little stockings and mittens and kept a more of sugar plums to which anne had arco her granddaughters little rocking chair sat op the other side of the fire place so close was ibo companionship thil thai esob called our cind mothers it was not long before ahe son who had borrowed her money failed rut anno to eliom the loss anor moni declared that ho would make ciasto and grow up so hat she ight keep school and take care of grandma ma chit lon before she was old enough to take such a burden upon herself her father died and there asis some that alio adopted grandmother would soon be homeless every few years tho poor wanderer awid in california who was rich and sometimes poor would wako up to a sense of his neglected duly and bend liis mother considerable sums ot money she had been enabled i more than lire hundred doir ars You hayo been kind to rac in my soro heart need she said her sweet alil face aa radiant a s that of an angel now it pleases the heavenly father that I 1 can help you iu your trouble but was not nil one day when the money was nearly gone another letter came staling that aunt belays son had just secured a valuable claim and that as soon as lie got rich enough ho was coming home to lake care of her and of the tittle girl who had adopted her annc laughed ocr the letter ho thinks inc a little girl she said and I 1 almost fifteen I 1 guess ho on t want to adopt roo when he sees me 1 I dont know about that said aunt betsy with a smile and 1 cunning little nod towards anne 3 mother grandma still kept glicr place sometimes matters went well and they had plenty and again it as if want was ready to stare them in the face aunt batay was still their angel for things were at their boist sho always said that they were going to mend and sure enough they did there never could bo a cloud so dark that the cheerful old lady did not a ann ray somewhere god is n great banker and dont you worry were glicr always consoling bordi at last came a large gliick letter directed to aunt betsy in a clear clerkly hand it was aiom alien the son no longer poor alien and was full of papers which it took a lawyer to understand and unravel tho import was that the boy had sent money enough to keep his mother from want all the days of her life drateln and government bonds acro to the amount of ten thousand dollars which on her death alic ct being for glicr moderate allt son was so thoughtless concerning her comfort aliis was enough to keep them all comfortable with bobs help for bob was now i stout young fellow of twenty with a capacity for making money anno who also contemplated tho of earning something for herself could not help showing a little triumph over the result of her childish transaction I 1 guess you arc glad now sir hat I 1 adopted a grandmother in of 1 kitten or a hen or a duck or a pg 1 I am cried bob it was a jolly idea I 1 am also glad that you adopted her in of any litile tiling that and screams awfully as we already and two babies in the house but girls do have sensible notions once iu a while ara mary A it youths companion |