The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25

in vain. No carriage was in sight.
Perhaps q policeman thought she
was lost, and took her to the station
house." suggested Katie.
Meg began to cry. Katie's words
seemed cruel.
run home quick, and tell your
mother about itl'
Meg took Katie's advice. She ran
fast, for she was frightened. Mrs
Sackett heard her story, and gave
her a severe scolding for carelessness.
"Some boy took it to scare you. 1t
must be about the neighborhood. Go
and looh" she ordered. She was a
Woodworking woman, and treated
things in II matter-of-fact way.
But when Meg came back to
report that no one had seen baby or
carriage anywhere, Mrs. Sackett be-
came alarmed. She forgot to scold
this time. She put on her bonnet,
and searched the street thoroughly.
She inquired at all the stores, and
even went to the police station.
Coming back from her fruitless ex-
petition, she dropped YEARLY into q
chair by the door. Meg could not
bear to see her mothers white face.
She picked up her hat and crept down
stairs.
An organ man was playing lively
tune, and Lou French's little sisters
were dancing to the music. They
came up to ask Meg ''if the baby was
found, and Meg, without looking at
them, choked and rushed down the
street. She walked on in a breathless
state for several blocks, and happen
ed to pause for breath lust where there
sat, on q doorstep, boy about
twelve years old, with q woebegone
and tear-stained face.
Meg looked at him and asked,
abruptly. whats the matter? Have
you lost baby2"
'Iost a baby!" shouted the boy, in
dignantly. "You clear out OF this!"
He seemed to look as il he thought
she was making sport of him.
Meg was glad to "clear." She had
only spoken out OF the abundance Of
her thoughts. She walked along
surveying absently the windows she
passed. She wondered II all the babies
who lived in those houses were safe,
any OF them in grocery stores and
police stations.
At the next corner she stopped
again. Three women stood there talk
ing. Said one of them, q small wo-
man:
~ told her, says !, Mrs. Smith,
you'd better report it at the station
house. 1t belongs to somebody that's
looking for it, of Counsel says l."
"She wouldn't take the trouble.
She's too elegant!" remarked stout
woman, sarcastically.
THAT'S So" replied the last speak
er. "She said, "Let them that's lost
1T look for it. Jimmie brought it
home, and he'll have to amuse it till
the mother comes says she. 1t
serves Jimmie, right, though" the
stout woman added, decidedly. "a
pretty trick, to wheel home the wrong
baby!"
Meg felt faint. She leaned against
the railing. Whose baby were they
talking about?
"Where was his own" asked the
third woman, who don't seem to I'M
uot oouhA ohO SiiSuHocohCCo
"Why, you know he left it beside q
store whileh he played marbles, and his
came along, and took it home
to brighten him!"
"Ha! ha! hal,
You may depend she was mad,
though, when he brought home
strange baby!
"Ha! ha! hap'
Could two babies belost in one day?
Meg stood in doubt a few minutes;
while the two women discussed the
story. She remembered the little boy
whom she had seen up the street, and
stepped boldly up to the takers.
"Will you please tell me who's found
\ baby?" she asked.
The eyes and tongues OF all three
we're directed to her at once.
why" "Well-haveyou lost oneY'
Mercy on us! do you know whose it
81"
Mer colored; but stood her ground.
"Somebodv wheeled our baby away
While I went into a store of an errand,b
The explained. "We've been looking
or her all the morninp!"
The three women were delighted.
rhev MI insisted on escortine Meg
Town the street and into the right
rouse. The mournful little boy sat