GRAN’MA GRACIE.

place was on the step by Grant, who, after a time, took to laying his head in
her lap, and gazing up at her with his great brown eyes.

And they said that Gran’ma knew no one now, but lay talking quickly
about losing the rabbits and about Dinny and Grant; and then there came a
day when she said nothing, but lay very still as if asleep.

That night as the doctor was going, he said softly that he could do no more,
but that those who loved the little quiet
child must pray to God to spare her to
them; and that night, too, while tears were
falling fast, and there seemed to be no
hope, Grant, in his loneliness and misery,
did utter a long, low, mournful howl.

But next morning, after a weary night,
those who watched saw the bright glow of
t -— returning day lighting up the eastern sky,
and the sun had not long risen before

     

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peril was at an end.

All through the worst no hands but her mother’s had touched her; but
now a nurse was brought in to help

~ knew her once more, and the great time of

 

a quiet, motherly, North-country woman
who one day stood at the door, and held up her hands in astonishment, for
she had been busy down-stairs for an hour, and now that she had returned
there was a great reception on the bed: Buzz was seated on the pillow purr-
ing; the rabbits all three were playing at the bed being a warren, and loping
in and out from the valance; Grant was seated on a chair with his head close
up to his mistress’s breast; and Dinny was reading aloud from a picture story-
book like this, but the book was upside down, and she invented all she said.

“ Bless the bairn! what does this mean?” cried nurse.

It meant that Dinny had brought up all Gran’ma’s friends, and that the
poor child was rapidly getting well.