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Show Here's a Girl "Who Likes to Swim; Draw a Boat for Her to Dive From ' (,(, J732 5r'. f wk'sa 1 RACE by name and Grace by nature," the children said about Grace, for she wor always graceful and excelled In every game. But best of all she loved to swim and to play a game with the other girls In the water. Can you toll wha: she la diving from? If you do not know what It Is, aU yoO have to do Is to trace a line through tho figures, fig-ures, beginning at No. 1, and It will show you.. When Grace waa only 4 years old her mother began to teach her to awlm. and where do you Buppoao she learned her first :casons? Why, In her own room. Her mother would let, hor Ho on the bed or on tho Moor and thon she would show her how to make motions as they aro made In swimming. Then ono day In the summer sum-mer she took hor to a little stream and put on her bathing suit and let her wado luto tho water. ' Grace was going down to the beach one day when she saw a poor, ragged little boy, and sho thought how much pleasure ho might get out of the water. Ho could not swim, but Grace throw hor football to him and he caught It and they played a game of pass. Then Graco suggested sug-gested that ho get a bathing suit and go down with hor. "Why, whore do you live?" she aaked. "Away off from hore," said the boy, blushing very red. .Grace thought that he was a runaway runa-way boy from an Inland town and decided to look out for him. She got him a bathing suit and then ho began to learn to awlm and In a very short time could make most of the strokes and was soon able to venture Quite a distance. Then thoy played games in the water and had a good tlmo every day. Ono day a dog camo tearing madly down tho beach towards them. Grace and the other , children hurried away, but the little boy caught "the dog around the neck. "Jack, dear old Jack," he said, and began " tn cry. The children gathered around and did not see on old gentleman advancing towards them until he had put his arms around the boy and the dog. Jack Jumped up and down on him und tho boy put his btoib around the old man's neck, and after awhile he called Grace and told the old man all about hor. "I am ho glad that you have been so kind to my grandson," the old man said. Ho explained to Grace's father that his daughter, who was George's mother, for that was tho boy's name, had died and that ho had run away rather than go to live with his father'3 relations. "George was a bad boy, giving us all this trouble," said the old man, but ho did not look as though ho was very angry' with his grand- I son. "Now ho is going to livo with mo," h eald, "and maka up to us all for' the anxiety wo jl have had on his account." 1 il |
