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But this blessed state of affairs was not long to continue Anna, as

she grew stronger, felt the necessity of seeking employment, but to

this the baby proved a for

woman, hampered with a child, work She would coht worn out in

These long trips of the littleabsence

and exhaustion on her return, did not improve the little one's health,

and al, the baby sickened and

died It was her cruelest blow For the child's sake she had taken up

her interest in life, ers to

the bone, but it was not to be and with the first falling of the clods

on the little coffin, Anna felt the last ray of hope extinguished from

her heart