The young green girl, who was all father could get when the cook left, was crying.

So were Shelley and little May, although she said afterward she had a boil on her heel and there was no one to poultice it.

Laddie leaned against the door casing, and it is easy enough to understand what he thought.

He told me he had to try twice before he could speak, and then he could only ask: "What's the matter ?" Probably May never thought she would have the chance, but the others were so busy crying harder, now that they had an audience, that she was first to tell him: "We have got a little sister." "Great Day!" cried Laddie.

"You made me think we had a funeral! Where is mother, and where is my Little Sister ?" He went bolting right into mother's room and kissed her like the gladdest boy alive; because he was only a boy then, and he told her how happy he was that she was safe, and then he ASKED for me.
He said I was the only living creature in that house who was not shedding tears, and I didn't begin for about six months afterward.