WHICH WAY DO YOU TAKE

New Zealand Tablet, 23 November 1911, Page 2389

WHICH WAY DO YOU TAKE

. 361 , Was y in S as though her heart would break, when Martha came trundling her hoop down the sidewalk. t Wh ft t s the matter V asked Martha, stopping short. Ise lost my penny down there!’ was the sobbing reply, as the speaker pointed to the gutter. That’s too bad! Look very hard for it, and maybe you’ll find it,’ Martha said, as she gave her hoop a touch with the short stick she held in her hand, and then followed it as it rolled away. The thought did not seem to come to her that she might have spared a few minutes from her play to aid in searching for the missing com. . ° A little later Nanette came along, and seeing the small figure in the gutter, exclaimed. Why, Mabel Maish! What are you doing there?’ ‘ I’se lost my penny, and ! can’t find it at all!’ was the tearful reply. Now Nanette was on her way to spend the afternoon with a friend when she discovered Mabel in trouble. The sight of the latter’s distress aroused but one desire m Nanette’s loving heart, and that was to offer practical sympathy to the little girl. And so though she said almost the same words that Martha had spoken a short time before, she backed them up by stooping down into the gutter, where she diligently sought for the com until she found it. 3 _ ‘You’re just as kind as kind Cj an be!’ Mabel ex aimed gratefully, when the money was once more safely m her pocket. , Nanette laughed merrily as she hurried away. I hat wasn t much to do !’ she declared. But it was just the thing that was needed.