I sold it last Monday night to Wesley Sinton, one of my good country customers.

He told me it was a present for a girl who was worthy of it, and I see he was right." "He's so good to me," said Elnora.

"Sometimes I look at him and wonder if a neighbour can be so kind to one, what a real father would be like.
I envy a girl with a father unspeakably." "You have cause," said Ellen Brownlee.

"A father is the very dearest person in the whole round world, except a mother, who is just a dear." The girl, starting to pay tribute to her father, saw that she must include her mother, and said the thing before she remembered what Mrs.
Sinton had told the girls in the store.

She stopped in dismay.