A BOOK TO TREASURE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 20

A BOOK TO TREASURE

I had such a beautiful book given mo for my birthday, "Michael O'Halloran," by Geno Stratton Porter. It is the story of a boy who lives by hinisolf —ho sells newspapers for his living. One day he fincls a little cripple girl whose grandma has just died, and she is frightened they are going to put her in the orphans' homo: "Micky" decides to take homo the little girl, whose iiame is "Peaches," and calls her his "family." 'He works hard for her, and. they arc very, much- attached to each, other. Everyone that gets, to know Micky Jikcs .him vary much, Uocause he is. a very..honest and ..upright, little.boy. He looks after Peaches Very well, and has a friend—a nurse—:who tells him what to do for her. He is sujUT that Peaches can be cured, and one day he writes a letter to a great doctor asking when ho is in the neighbouring hospital to have a look at Peaches. In the end some friends of tickey's take Peaches to the hospital when the great doctor is there, and she is cured, but the doctor tells". Micky he didn't do anything. It. was the way Mickey had.cared and nourished Peaches that made her regain the use of her legs. Mickey and Peaches are adopted by some kind friends, and they live happy ever after. "MISS BILLY" (16). . Petorie.