Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-01
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
WHO LOVES MAMMAL

 When the Test Came. only One of tho
 Tour Was Proof. The sun had gone down, and it was dark in the sitting room. Grent flakes of sapw were flying through the air out- side. The wind whistled and blew through keyholes and under doorsills.
 Mamma sat in big Boston rocker in front of blazing grate fire, surrounded by her little family Willie, the youn gest, on her lap, Janet II one arm of the chair and Jack on the other both with their heads leaning on mammals shoulders, while Sam, the oldest boy, sat on stool at her feet, with his back close up against her
 "I love you, mamma, said Janet.
 So do l, So do "So do I, 7 ohimcd ill the three other voices T love you more than anybody else can love you" said Sam, because I'm the oldest. loved you tho longest. ' '1 love you the most, because I'm the only girl said Janet.
 "I love you so much wish Il big boar would come after you. and Id shoot him, said Jack
 "I love you more than can tell you. said Willie putting his arms around his mothers neck and kissing her again and again.
 Then all the children kissed her nt once, and poor mamma was almost suf- located with their embraces,
 Do you love me, childrenY she asked. Do you really know what lovo isi''
 Why, love is love--something you feel inside of you that makes you want to do something for somebody 2
 Yes, love is doing something--not your own pleasure, but doing something for some one else, perhaps something hard and unpleasant.
 Just then the postman whistled at the door, and the children ran to sec wilnt he had brought. It's letter for me, said mansiiin : as she opened it, land must write an answer at once, so it will go in this evenings mail. Who'll take letter to the lamppost for me?'
 Sam looked out of the window How the snow blew around His rubber boots were away up stairs. Oh, dear. ho had five hard examples to do Why couldn't that letter wait until morningf He'd take it on his way to school. Jack looked out of the window too. Ugh, how dark it wasl He didn't like being out in the dark nlone. It made him scary. Suppose there should be bears somewhere about the street cor nersI In the stories he had read when they came it was always in q snow storm.
 Janet thought: "Why, certainly mamma doesn't mean mo to go as long as Sam and Jack are Ill tho house. Two got my slippers on. hate going ont in l the cold. Y
 1 So when mamma had finished writing the reply to her letter and looked up, she found Sam busy with his slate and pencil, Jack with one of his games. and Janet knitting away very industriously on hood for her doll Only Willie stood before her with his big boots on and his osereoat turned up about his ears.
 'I'm all ready, mamma, he said.
 "But, Willie, aren't you afraid to go alonei' she asked Its getting dark, and it's cold out of doors,
 'I love you. mamma, he answered. "I'll run fast, and don't believe any, thing will hurt me.
 "Yes, you may" said mamma,
 Don't get lost ill the snowdrift. lit. tie man. I'll watch you from the win- dow. know who loves me truly to- night, she added, with q sorry smile. Love does not think of itself, and love conquers even fear, doesn't 1t, Willie% New York Observer. 
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