Her Wish Gratified.
: Five little girls were spending a pleasant evening together, and fell to discussing what they would most like to have. "I wish 1 lived in a beautiful palace, with nothing to do but act as I pleased," said little Susie Blake. "Oh, I wish I was very, very pretty, so that people would look at me aud say, .' Sjhe'a :tne, prettiest girl J csyer Baw !'" ex-
(Jlaimed Ella Dudley. "And Ido wish more than anything elso that I had lots and lots of money," said t)oraKyle. "I would like to be very smart and write beatttlful story-books," said Maggie Wilklns. " Yotlr turn now, Katie—what do you wish for?" asked Maggie, seeing that Katie hesitated. " I with to be good—so good," she said, slowly, " that all my friends will love mo very dearly, and miss me when I am absent from them," timidly said little Katie Oatis. " Why, Katie !" exclaimed four loving voices, "you have jrour wish already; for only this morning we all agreed that the day would not be half so pleasant if you had not come," said Maggie, drawing Katie's hand in her own.—'Atlanta Southern Cultivator.' The Major-genpral says there is not likely to be an encampment next Easter.
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Evening Star, Issue 7409, 3 January 1888, Page 3
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204Her Wish Gratified. Evening Star, Issue 7409, 3 January 1888, Page 3
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