FAIRY PALACE, 25

Rosa threw her arms round her
Nurse’s neck, and pressing her rosy face
glowing through tears, close to hers,
said in a voice hardly audible, “ oh ! do
Jet me knit a pair of stockings for poor
little Jessy Stephenson of our school;
she has none to wear, and such bad
shoes, I wish I might give her a pair
of mine; and then her frock is so
ragged and patched.”

“ Well, you shall knit a pair of
stockings as soon as you can,” said
Dame, won by this infantine eloquence ;
and in the meantime we will find an old
frock, and a pair of. stockings .and
shoes, and you shall take them with
you as you go to school.”

Rosa could scarcely contain hergelf
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