Show biffle sir A story with a blessing by P PHOEBE HOEBE GRAY copyright by 11 ft da bac SYNOPSIS 6 tahe but trina tri na th the 11 clean 1 washing 0 1 up 1 slipper ap hill mary I 1 all alice ca brown a in as sui up an cr by bonie ma u 0 aal aol boia d w alio 0 s spill pa ilia 1 washing la into 1 the dirt r t he I 1 Is 1 u d till 1 I wxbe taken to as ier h aonia me in 1 culvert 11 1 ty vial tt a galahad bli 1 las Is pa pirn hl hed by her drunken father for Orl diss it t I 1 the wash al money in marv alice from roin home he a brolley into the country and sp I 1 ada at ahe at alie of bam I 1 holifi efam s in the mornine tie kneels ihlae char tie ft cripple sam takes a mary loary r ad mo pro brown ar old ola 1 es ea ba sam takes take ill hir hi r 1 and I mary say A alice to 1 la is home aner for a lilt od while all acm lcm B brown tilt the dauk drunken to ta aa aher 1 la S arr a u I 1 charlie 1 la mode ft Galal iad knight iran visits ba the tha farm am do you know knew the value of if j bar hardship d ship in the formation of character faith counts count for so much I 1 in the porfe performance ronea of duty A bi man can do p pretty nearly as much on a he e thinks he can that a faith in himself mary ali alice develops a faith in god and she thinks that god I 1 will give her the power to do her work I 1 no matter how big it at Is CHAPTER IV bf continued francis francia mou came out or in this time by himself he arrived quite early in the morning and announced his Ar intention of staying all dav the chauffeur be set act down a great husker basket of fruit relt by the side aide door before backing tile car 1 to them the rond it the children passed most of the forenoon ammom in the orchard taching of this and that viewing the increasingly success successful fil efforts of little dick brown to walk da discussing cai the la honors as and du do liea it ot of n galahad 1 treacle francis file showed won ad bi hla companions some same marvel sea mis feats of strength and agility using as tres tree limb for far a trapeze after din did ner laer wh charlie took his hia nap miry ali alice a and ad fr francis 1 wondered wandered twill from the house along the old mill maid leading to the pond her here stood I 1 an a ancient elea I 1 lon long gidle idle gristmill 1 1 I he log leg d dmn am and the old mill seemed to sleep placidly placid ta Y among the elders this is awfully pretty dont von TOU think so naked asked mary ali alice as aa they toad at athe the oad end of the dam I 1 Y you a hot bet 1 ft t a pretty say lots let fish bsh far or in dot I 1 a P pin th the boy bay produced need a piece of if string cut a at slim in pole from a clump of yellow bi birches caught a tiny grasshopper and ad became at once a sportsman the were curious but elusive look out francis you it 11 fall fail I 1 in c called lied mao M gra alice for her compan companion ion was creeping out along the do dam this I 1 isn I 1 dangerous come came on an I 1 11 let you bih the shiners are big ger out here bere gra gracious chous mary all alice derees heres a tremendous big something I 1 at it a a trout come on oi out but mary allary ali alice was timid she tood toad on an the bank and watched ch T frao 1 1 als I 1 V elhat but a nice alm buy boy she thought he could do most anything tic we baan it t afraid the old rot rotting thug plank along ae g tile the to top of the do dam might i crumble riall under foot at and ad suit send bi allm into at the pond perot but he went at boldly baldly on the water la in the flume flame no ys about ten feet deep bp aracel 1 arancia reached alie flume whose lb loellke ilke idea at blood it chri la or four fear feet flan bleher than in the a dam the boy bay drew her ann am felt a w if it would pull out himself up and sat nat comfortably upon loose house plank which lay across the name flume CO come on over car here her mary alice be calls called i ann cnn a see lots of nib oh ob took back I 1 got moe mo one e he eta jerked suddenly upon his ht pole a nd ad so methin g shiny hilly fluttered flutter tn in the star lr it at the end ot of his line but the rot ten plank could not net support so a much silted wr ti boy and give gave way mary A alice I 1 ir saw francis flood bell decla 9 go up nd ad then the he be disappeared suddenly int into the big be box ammy alke a heart gave n jump she screamed but that did no DO good there S was nobody to hear rh her she could not run ran and bring help before francis could drown aud and she did not dure dare to go out on ma the treacherous old dim one foolish wod said kept l apt running through her bed gravity gravity gravity suddenly little charlie Cli arlie thomas lovo love ly 01 at al race face and big bl brave eyes floated late into mary alice a rated anybody that hint does the thing god does doea vs can fl fix up a little pair of leea age story mary alice stepped out a on the planking PI and began the passage of the dam it she could get over to the flume she could rane the bv boy string gling 1 in the ft it anter any anybody b oly who could do ch the things than ehlt th god did could help belp be her to avoid the holes and 0 weaker air pre she i thrall thrilled rd with ith unit that idea suit and vs was DO longer afraid I 1 rancis polo pole had bad fallen upon the dam alongside the flume box miry alice picked it up then she ahe looked down dean let into the flume where when it ft we was eo dark that her ees adjusted to the arong strong sunlight bt at bast refused Is t i serve acer tier her but she he board beard a armola chuh and ad a api splash H here I 1 am r frnncis I 1 she he called she thrust bruit the butt end of the fishing pole down into the gloom through which now she elie dimly discerned a white face rr francis 11 va was a well weak swimmer aft his cloth clothes and ad heavy shops shoes hampered bump ered him the slippery alip pery sides bides of the flume box of no sustaining bold gant diab that call called it mary alice francis grasped the it flailing A ing rod 0 ow o you soot won t drown dmn he clang to the 11 fishing laing pole keep ing only his bis held aber water oater thus the water ater sustained rai most or of his hia wright 1 I could old hold bold Y you u tike it this a ion lone g bile if time said old mary at alice ce I 1 but who s goin gain to pull you out besides you 11 be from s francis teeth were acre chattering at al ready ad if I 1 could get boll bold of your imad hand 1 I might pull poll thyself myself up the side I 1 1 be a said laid mary alice leaned far over and ex ear tended her right head band toward the tiny boy sliding it along the pole trench francis drew himself out of water and ad reached bed up until he caught her hand band th the a strain 31 a of hi his weight increased ase ar greatly as aa he lost the lift fili of the water can you stand it ft he liked C come on bald aid the little girl a aa though tile the edge of the flume was al 1 ready cutting cruelly and her arm felt as if it would pull out come came on she gritted gritter her teeth anybody who could old do tile the things god did could it help a little girl keep lie her friend from frem drowning come came on an get conr 0 o r get your other other ather hand up the there I 1 francis had now new hold of b both th b her er am arms and ad the fishing pole had dropped into the anter it was that or nothing As the a boy bar pulled himself up mary ry r aice 1 ace managed to sele live ilia his coat cast 1 hia I feet kicked and slipped upon the smooth la III flame sides idea there 0 was no an too hold bold no creek crack or protruding nail ata I a bolt it vill w iab a out nut ca on 1 it caught g t the sole of francis shoe this waa 8 about a foot under water ahe b boy y put pat forth all 11 his strength and ad pulled himself up until he be could get a hand on oil the top edge of th the flume wall all mary allen alice waa we sure her arms would part compana with her shoulders now call relieved eved of that strain she took a n new w grip on his vet w et coat and tugged d sturdily ily I 1 as he drew draw himself up until he could hooli back bi his elbows over are 1 the I ede elbow then lie he duew a leg g across tile the to lop P plank nod and she knew she he bad save saved d him bl next warning instead of brin being g moved led out at lot into the orchard CI chiville a asked led that its his chair be placed betide IP 1 mary allees alice bed for far the little girl was bruised and lame ionic and militias miraba I 1 in stated that a day I 1 in bed would it so 0 h her good gold ll 11 mrs R brown took da daliy ky n out or to see a the mo olles ll 11 1 I n I 1 ich h it I 1 mue could think thick of some th thin in to d do to a amuse you mary alice said C turns charlie I 1 cau I 1 read e d good enough gh I 1 know knew I 1 II 11 air draw you a some pitchers mammee yea Y dr dear can I 1 be have a pencil panel and paper I 1 w rant ant to amuse mary alice 1 1 I I eues gue you 11 amual a her bar oil 11 right aid mirthie firth producing the tha articles he drabb arev just juat alie cutest things mary alice I 1 haven t you ease been liim him do it yet set well you just watch charlie caarl Is fell to work his big paper rest reat ing 9 on tile the back of an old geography there be said that a a raw cow oh ob said the thelva invalid ild that pretty good L le a ere you leobe it a hauie house walh ith a nan man and a dog got gain ra I 1 into at it t with three it r so at strokes takes of f your you pencil golly aid charlie on an old a one only I 1 make him a soldier that little crook makes make th the is bay net at of hla his gun row now I 1 I 1 II 11 do ar you I 1 a engine he want oa a exemplifying exemplify hia art to the fhe great grant entertainment ot hla a friend then be gave her bar a little sketch with out coin comment nant V whoa he that why mily good gracious grac loUB its ita francis willett it looks looka just like bi him raw now do one ot of me 0 charlie beat bla bi brows brow and ad puckered p bickered lick ered hla his nose he H scrutinized the ion fac caf pillow ar turn to one 11 side he be sa ancil I 1 1 he have to make 1 em nil 11 profiles good nesi r mary ai your 1 nose Is awful ani 11 ae 0 straight ti and just little 1 curie makes your tip alpa ow pull ieti t that pretty sou 5 re on a turrill Ild ga gal 1 1 I glass I 1 neier a noticed it til II 11 I 1 came to draw you ai mary I 1 dry alice took look tile the sketch 1 do I 1 look lack like that bealh oh it 8 I loi irly ely oh 01 C ril le beival how d y you ever or lear lt if A I 1 little it I 1 bov or like v vou la I 1 don t know I 1 just try it some am glnn I 1 fiel like ke it most lost all al say I 1 male make con ciu look awful bothin like he the f folks at all 11 then the once a I 1 in a balle idle I 1 get one unit that looks like tills this I 1 in practicing quite a good deal but a cows we horns burns I 1 ia fa awful limit haid to sat get put on to ta his bla head where the tasi belong sell and 0 when hen I 1 try to make a mite it iwans looks look like a log dog 1 I in glad yon think this lilg one or of you ran Is nim dice and you me can keep it to show how bow you ka when you were a little girl here s me he produced pro aced a n hideous laide ous caricature car lelar of himself with prodigious ringlets groit sharing eves and a wide mouth like a jack a 0 I 1 lantern the boss save it looka look exactly the way I 1 do lie he laid I 1 1 k it at the culls calls I 1 there othere 0 he said that cow les lea fake yours and allocated mine and nave have em framed together ch I 1 dont charlie protested mary army iscle alke alice I 1 think th in you yon re horrid you can make a lovely ely picture of yourself I 1 believe D do I 1 it will you yon 0 o said aid the little boy bay I 1 d rather the do s flo I 1 methin methin liate Interest lo like ake a duck or a a boy fallin in the a mill 11 pond or tee mary alice this Is water and this is ia a fish CHAPTER V the pt return of lt lem rr mra brown a led and the children went baia back to sheffield on sunday so BO that monday morning work ork could begin dis bv early she went et ion out I 1 to war work in three re days a week and on con the other three did washings inge it at bad home me it we was the end ad of summer and school would soon begin for to another week or two story mary allm alice could star at home while her mother went I 1 out at after that a decision declai must be made should vary mary alice forego further schooling for economic reasons aud and either stay atay at t he home in r to enable sins mra brown to vork volk out ont or OF set get a job jb her b ar self so 80 that her mother could coald meas remain it at home doing such auch work as aa ahe he could at h her r own tubs the rent real last tx be paid dicky must most have milk ilk mrs arm brown brave almost most reg the two w aweeka of idle idleness acis she he would haae to work twice as hard to pay for them one night trance ft c allett met vary mary lice re a on clipper 1 hill I ta usual III he a took the wagon tongue dam her hep hand and ad started to draw the load up the long tape slope I 1 I 1 to not at colln here hem any more said gald miry like ilke tt hy by matis bof and I 1 ie a got a job I 1 in gain to work at slurry stachys Stace ys oo oca keel see sou I 1 our re gain to work for toots teats stacey dads that s swell we 1 1 id 1 like to work in a store hows how a sir ike rit C charlie thomas v 1 I don I 1 know fl N a mine came home the w week ak of after to er von TOU boys were there two weeks ao aio that was rattier father a seen him since then your father has hall sure ile he drove out again to see are 1 I am the thomas he baya Y be hes a eien to have uncle back billy jack look it at charlton charlies lega leg he pan t really my any loch billy he was wan filth falkers a college roommate room mate and now no be a a great due doc tor tar my that dad says y I 1 uncle Is billa aliv knows an regaled aled more or beat about f ctet t and ml less leg and spine spines thin anybody in the world he a a ape mary y A alice answered a gothing nt sud cedears very j incoherent h r e den tears blurred lefore hir eyes eye suppose this great doa doctor should help charlie all the way up the hill bill she bhe walked in silence by francis vi allatt a side aide orr for good goodness bake ke my mary all alice the boy burst buret out why don I 1 t you talk I 1 never saw naw such a PI person as you 1 francis would you do me a favor areal a real big mim favor r bet I 1 would t you save love my life fr I 1 do you remember your child hood love aff affair his T the he glass or boy bay y you u we wera took stuck on from the ame 1 you a r or ight until til you reached it your t early ay iy it denst 7 sube CONTINUED a |