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near his bed, and I think he would be pleased
with that.”

““What a girl Katie is!” exclaimed Harry,
with admiration; “she always thinks of every-
thing. I expect that is the very thing he would
like, for I remember the last time I saw him he
had some flowers in a little glass on his table,
and he said what a pity it was that they died
so soon when they were picked. But can I get
a rosebush for sixpence ?” said Harry.

“We will see,” said his papa; and they drove
to a nursery garden.

There was nothing nice to be got under a
shilling, and one very pretty rosebush with two
or three roses in bloom and plenty of buds about
it was one shilling and sixpence.

“Oh, papa, I should so like that one,” said
Harry, his face flushing with eagerness.

Katie crept up to her papa and whispered to
him, “Do let him have the money, papa dear.”

But Mr. Summers did not think that would