The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-10-13


ilstd p Mn " ssts enthusiastic desc1p-
ltlons ot people 5ahH 10 the sensible
ppmptings ofsher ytrn heart. 3.iila
ani going through Blank street, on
ny way lome,s sad one Of Peggys
Nnul9-be benetActors, .and I wal See
siser Helen hbOltit, q II your Peggy
Comes back we will try 70 find her 4
heiier frieId.t =
x Poor lonely little Peggyl She hid He.
gun % wonder what was goingl to be.
come Of her and whether there was
really any place for her in sucha big,
busy world. Shehad been grieyed enough
swhen her a,int's housekeeping was
broken up, aud when they went to the
hh0pilal everything had seemed strange
kand sal Now, ipstas Sue liad learned
% feel at home there and 10 really love
| sister Helen and twu,or three, Of the
othsr kind.facel ladies who nntsed the
Gle glck people-ryes and two or three
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grave little child and ol,l for bar vsnrs
She hoped II she were very good and
gave no trouble that Sister Helen would
let her stay. 1t was, indeed, a great
sorrow when she was told about the
country week visit. They said il would
only 10 a week, and yet Peggy cried
herself to sleep that night. She was to
go on Saturday. and Sister Helen was
going to take. her to the train; but Peggy
could not bear to see children 60 by on
the street when she looked out of the
hospital window. They were all going
home; they had brothers and sisters, she
was sure. Nobody guessed in those
DAYS low sad this little hpnrt wng grow.
ipc II wonld have modo tho ,oors cc,,o
ouit,k to MI m,r eves n wa Ind t,,ovn ,o
her and had seen t,s moor chilli @ sitting
alone nm n wide md seot in 9he cars
lonnd on brr solitary ;onrnov Ws ors
so glad that we know already something
about Miss Ann Dunning.
III
ohiy TWO business men and Peggy
,'etse,' ..st'. were an"eu oy tme traln az ene
.ts'.eaUwl .,1 su'1'oh' % Du' al tne iaiers III
wv 1ne I'IE,se were mere 10 look at tnem'
ile brakeman 10 whom sister Helen
l,au SloNen ABOUT feSsN helpea htr
now, .,l, '''e car steps very Klhuiy INTO tile
mluuIe M Ol the aws'ome crowd Then
ulSs D'ihhlhS' VINO was wMung' 100
pushed her way eagerly forward 70 say;
Ihls must be the little girl that hlIs
come to make me a visit aud tired, be-
wlldcred Peggy looked up with brim-
ming eyes into the homely, pleasant
face. and said'
Yes please without q doubt or
le'lE
ilRed her tho minute l saw her, "
aus Dunnlng whispered to everybody
the next day. going and coming from
church with Peggy fast held by the
lana. Shes so handy and senSib'" J
aont Know as | ever shall send .'er
9'cS sieS got no folks. Come here
from the hospital
And again:
You'd never take her to be q 0.ycar.
Old shes forever a.watchin' me to try
and SCI what | want and save steps. She
set the table as handy as could be last
night, two hours after she come-when
was busy cnttin and baStin' for Miss
Farley. You know SHE was called away
to stay with her mother and has ended
up her school!
After such promising beginning we
need not he surprised that arrangements
were made for PegSy's further continu.
ance. And here again were solitary set
in fHmilies-Miss Dunning, the busy
village dressmaker; Peggy, the lonely
| child WHO ClunE TO the new friend with