THE LITTLE PICTURE GIRL was thanked, and scolded for being up to his tricks again, and then hugged once more to make it all All that stirring time he was quietly preright. tending to read his newspaper really wanted to read it at all
just as
though he
!
And Minna
forgot everything in the excitement of Christmas Day. That night she slept soundly.
The following day she went to the pantomime, and afterwards dreamt about Columbine. It was only on the morrow that she noticed again her favourite picture, and then her mind wandered back to the wonderful things that had happened
there.
girl in red,
And
as she gazed at the little out so joyously for her
who was going
morning walk, it occurred to her where the little Picture Girl must be going to she was going out, as
Minna was,
had given her
to spend the gold piece her father
!
"
Ah, she deserved it,"' Minna said to herself. " I- -I don't quite think I've deserved mine that I should like to do is, quite so much. something for children
"like
who
like the
suffer
and are poor," she muttered, the hospital." And out, she made up her
children in
slowly, as she thought it mind that the doll she was going to buy should be a very small one, and that the rest of the money from the gold piece she would send to the " Children's Hospital
Fund."