I'll manage her." "Do you know, mamma, I think I was waked up just in time to help you.
I'll take her from you, and perhaps she will take her drink from me." "Nonsense, Willie.

Lie down, my pet." "But I've been thinking about it, mamma.

Do you remember, yesterday, Agnes would not take her bottle from you, and screamed and screamed; but when Tibby took her, she gave in and drank it all?
Perhaps she would do the same with me." [Illustration: "WILLIE SAT DOWN WITH THE BABY ON HIS KNEES, AND SHE STOPPED CRYING."] As he spoke he slipped out of bed, and held out his arms to take the baby.

The light was already coming in, just a little, through the blind, for it was summer.

He heard a cow lowing in the fields at the back of the house, and he wondered whether her baby had woke her.