"I recollect him now.
He's the one that said he'd been exposed to smallpox an' wanted to be kept where it was warm all winter.

Well, I'll be--I'll be--" "Don't say it, pa.

He said it fer you when he clumb over that barb-wire fence out there," cried Edna gleefully.
Several days of anxiety and energy followed this interesting episode.

In that time two tramps attempted to obtain food and shelter at Crow's home, one on the plea that he was the father of the unfortunate child, the other as an officer for the Foundlings' Home at Boggs City.

Three babies were left on the doorstep--two in one night--their fond mothers confessing fessing by letters that they appreciated Anderson's well-known charitable inclinations and implored him to care for their offspring as if they were his own.