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Show Natural Query The stroller happened to be present one evening when a young hopeful of six years returned home after a hard day's play and received a quarter left by big grandmother, who had called to iee him, but who, fenriig the night air, as grandmother do, bad had to leave before his return. The boy had heard grown persons talk about "when the old lady Is gone Junior will get quite a sum," and always al-ways when she came to see blra nhe had placed a dime In the chubby spendthrift hand. He stood with the quarter almost covering his palm, then looking op with great mysterious eyes, asked in awed tones: "Is she died?" Philadelphia Public Ledger |