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"I knew it!" she said "Only I didn't knohat He acted like a

drugged baby all last night and to-day Since when did you begin

carrying that stuff around with you, and feeding it to tiny

babies?"

"It's a good thing Dr James recommended it He said it was

har, and very hard on

you You could save yourself a lot," he urged

"I need saving all right," said Kate, "but I haven't a picture of

a pair of tiny babies"

He slipped the bottle back in his pocket Kate stood looking at

hi and so intently, he flushed and set the flask on a

shelf in the pantry "It may come in handy some day when some of

us have a cold," he said

Kate did her best, but she was so weakened by nursing both of the

babies, by loss of sleep, and overwork in the house, that she was

no help whatever to George in getting in the fall crops and

preparing for spring She had lost none of her ambition, but

there was a li and lusty, eating her up, and

crying with hunger, until she was forced to resort to artificial