God knows if any one has had a hard time it is not the children in this home.

I do not like to think of those awful winters, Mother, and of the hard time you had with us all." "A hard time!" exclaimed his mother.

"I, a hard time, and with you all here beside me, and all so well and strong?
What more could I want ?" The amazed surprise in her face stirred in her son a quick rush of emotion.
"Oh, Mother, Mother, Mother," he whispered in her ear.

"There is no one like you.

Did you ever in all your life seek one thing for yourself, one thing, one little thing?
Away back there in Ontario you slaved and slaved and went without things yourself that all the rest of us might get them.