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WHAT FRANK AND LILY LEARNT.

> R{UNTIE Grace was on a visit to the home of
| her little nephew and niece, and the young
' folks were consequently having a very happy time.
It ae to auntie, however, that perhaps the children
were thinking rather too much of their own happiness, so
one mornirig she announced her intention of going to visit
a little sick friend, and she asked Lily and Frank to go
with her. They looked rather glum over it at first; but
when auntie told them how ill her little friend was, and
how poor, with no mother to love her, and scarcely any
friends to care for her, tears came into their eyes; and
they not only agreed to go, but Lily offered to take one
of her very best dollies as a present for the invalid, while
Frank lamented that he had nothing the poor sick girlie
would care for.

So after breakfast the small party started. To the
children’s astonishment their auntie took them to the railway
station, and thence by train some ten miles to the little town
of Wilton, where there was a children’s hospital. It was
there, where auntie was evidently well known, that they
found the sick child. Her joy at seeing auntie was quite
touching; and her delight, when Lily gave her the doll,
somehow made that young lady inclined to cry.

The children could not be parted until auntie promised
they should meet again; and, indeed, that was only the
first of many visits to Wilton Hospital, where Lily and
Frank unconsciously learnt the valuable lesson that our
highest pleasure comes, not from seeking our own enjoyment,
but in trying to make others happy.