OLD AGE AT LAST.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 27, 5 July 1890, Page 19

OLD AGE AT LAST.

Well-known phrases are sometimes so sad. so mysterious in the minds of little people who are making their first acquaintance with grief ! A child whose dear grandpa had been taken suddenly ill was one morning asked by a neighbour if he were any worse. ‘ I saw the doctor hurrying over to your house a little while ago,’ said the good but thoughtless woman, ‘ and 1 thought your grandpa might be worse.’ ‘ He isn’t that,' said the little thing, her lips quivering. ‘ He’s dead.’ ‘ Dear, dear me ! ’ cried the neighbour. ‘ I didn't know he was so sick.’ ‘ Mamma said he had a cold last night,’ explained the little mourner. ‘ and the doctor said—oh, I don’t know just what, but it was a ccld, ami then old age set in, ami gramlpa died.'