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That night, when he had been given a bath in the little zinc tub they

used for washing clothes, and had been carefully buttoned inside a clean

undershirt of Bud's, for want of better rai out of his sleepyti He wanted Marie, and he did not

kno to , tender, aard hts till bedtily around the little cabin The whi back and forth on the box before the fireplace

could not still

"M'ee--take!" wailed Lovin Child, sitting up and listening "M'ee

take--Uvin Chal!"

"A, you don't wanta go and act like that Listen here, Boy You

lay down here and go to sleep You can search uess you want your mama, maybe, or your bottle,

chances are Aw, looky!" Bud pulled his watch fro of infant charges--and dangled it

anxiously before Lovin Child

With so lier fingers

"Listen to the tick-tick! Aouldn't bite into it oh, well, darn

it, if nothing else'll do yuh, why, eat it up!"

Lovin Child stopped crying and condescended to take a languid interest

in the watch--which had a picture of Marie pasted inside the back of the

case, by the way "Ee?" he inquired, with a pitiful little catch in his