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"If they do, then may we have her?" asked Nancy Ellen

Kate threw out her hands "Take my eyes, or my hands, or my

feet," she said; "but leave me ain for several

days Then she began cohed in high glee when she appeared Dr Gray often

stopped in passing to see her; if he was in great haste, he

hallooed at the gate to ask if she was all right Kate was

thankful for this, more than thankful for the telephone and car

that would bring hiht, if he were

needed But he was not needed Little Poll throve and grew fat

and rosy; for she ate measured food, slept by the clock, in a

sanitary bed, and was a bathed, splendidly cared for baby When

Kate's fahtest

heed

"Laugh away," she said "I've got soht with this

baby; I don't propose for the battle to coainst me, because I'm unprepared"

With scrupulous care Kate watched over the child, always putting

her first, the house and land afterward One day she looked up

the road and saw Henry Peters co

Nancy Ellen She had finished bathing the baby andher

especially attractive in a dainty lace ruffled dress with blue

ribbons and blue shoes that her sister had brought on her latest

trip Little Poll was a wonderful picture, for her eyes were