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"You can't think of anybody who ht like to take this little David

Allison, can you,asked his wife at breakfast

the next

"I certainly cannot," Martha said decidedly "I think it's a very

dangerous thing to take unknown children into your faht to offer to do it? But in the first place, I'm very

tired, and in the second place, I don't like boys If it was a girl it

ht be different"

"No doubt we could find a girl," Williareat expense And then, as I said--unknown children!--

they ht have evil tendencies; they

probably have If the parents die early, it's a sign of weakness of

some sort I've no doubt this boy's father drank I don't want to see how hard it

is for us to make both ends meet--as you keep up a sort of free

practice--I don't think it's prudent to suggest any new

responsibilities and expenses"

"Oh, I wasn't uess we're

not the people to bring up a child I'd spoil hireatly relieved "It would be the

worst possible thing for him But Willy, there's that Mrs Richie?"