PATIENT GERTIE:

tO

Tus girls name is Gertie. She lives
away across the water in sight of those
grand old mountains called the Alps.

“Mamma, what makes her look so sad?”

“J will tell you. Gertie has been sick a
good deal of late, and has fallen behind her
class at school, and now she is trying by
patient study to make it up.”

“Ts that her mamma who is reading
with her?” :

“No; that is her older sister. Her
mamma died when she was a little child.”

“Poor Gertie! Maybe that is what
makes her face look so sad.”

“Perhaps it is, my child; but her sister
is very kind to her. See, she is helping
her to finish her grammar lesson, before it
is quite time to start for school.”

“T think Gertie will make a nice and
good woman, because she is so patient.”