\ MINNA’S SURPRISE.

H, mother, do look at that poor little girl!” said

little Minna to her mother as they were standing at
the window one cold November afternoon. A poor woman
and her little daughter were passing slowly up the street
singing to earn a few pennies to pay for a night's
lodging.

“May I give them Something? asked Minna, and her
Mamma said “Yes” and kissed her, and told her that to think
for others was the way to be happy oneself. So Minna took
a couple of pennies from her money-box, and to make the
little ragged girl happy she brought down one of her a

dolls in her arms and gave it to her.

On Christmas morning when
Minna woke up and rubbed her
eyes she saw that while she had
been asleep Santa Claus must
have come down the chimney, for
-he had laid on her bed a pretty
basket with a label, on which was