A COMFORTER.
A GENTLEMAN was goimr abroad for a -ix months' trip, and had just taken an affectionate l**ave of his wife ami hi- **nly chil*i. a little girt of two or three years. The pretty child felt that -omething wa- wrong, but hardly realised what, and stood beside a chair holding her thumb in her.mouth—a favourite pastime with her. ami a never-failing comfort. The mother, meantime, sat gazing out of the window, ami presently the tear- began to drop one by one down her cheeks. ' The daughter looked at her, and at once stepped to her side. • Mamma, she said, in a comforting tone. ’ mamma, suck ’oo fum !’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 24, 14 June 1890, Page 19
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109A COMFORTER. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 24, 14 June 1890, Page 19
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