The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-03-10

"a boy to be proud q and 70 work
for commented tha attorney
Tatum eyes we're shining. ne
could hardly keep his hands of the
wide-eyed little fellow. He was ao-
tuallY trembling.
q must get Mrs Tatum," he told
the matron. q thought I'd come
first myself and see, for we'd been dis
appointed so many times III be back
this afternoon"
Roscoe had a sense all that day that
something extraordinary was going
to happen. He felt his little heart
pounding at his ribs, and he could
not take his milk with any appetite.
And that afternoon something
wonderful did happen. a woman
came, who looked down in RoscOe's
eyes quite as if he belonged to her,
and who gathered him up in her arms
and held him close as if to see how
he felt in arms that had too long been
empty.
"He's a wonderful match, Mary, ?
whispered the man who had come
with her. "a ribbon clerk couldn't
have matched you better"
The woman laughed, but she cried,
! too, and the next thing Roscoe knew
/, his hood and coat and mittens were
put on, and he was kissed by the
matron and taken away in the arms
of the woman who looked at him as
if he belonged to her.
al month later, the matron, having
been out for an outing, said to the
e nurse at the dinner table:
e "Well, whom do you think I went
4 to see this afternoon?"
And all the nurses said in chorus:
"Roscoe G. Brown"
: eyes" said the matron. "I had
good deal of trouble finding tn,
? house, but when / got to it I knew
5 it at once, for there was Roscoe sit
o ting by the window looking out a
the world just the way he used to do
e He recognized me the minute he saw
y me and began clapping his hands
d and Mrs. Tatum = that's his new
It mother, you know-came and leanec
over him and saw me. She was cor
2. dial, and I had a lovely time. TIL
e little cottage was as cosy as could BE-
h The room l went in was the living
Il room-a good, old-fashioned living
20 room such as I had not seen befor
1t for many a day. There was a foo
scrubbed white as wood could be, an
!" a cooking stove that reflected thefu1
niture, and an old-fashioned burea
re with the Bible on it, and there we1
as chairs and tie table. But the pre-.
)? test thing il the room was a. cri
u with a canopy, all hung with whit
Is dotted null and tied with blue I'll
bons. And there was a little blu
chair in the corner behind the stow
n. ana a cat with a blue ribbon aroun
he his neck lying near. Besides thel
j. was a great basketful of toys. SOJ
friends gave US these Mrs. Tatul
n, explained. we have always bee
ne giving their children toys on Chris
to mas and birthdays, so they took tn
on chance to get back at us. She hs
occasion to 60 out Of the room for
cd moment, and you ought to see no
an Roscoe toddled after her, and wht
they came back he was hanging no
n of her skirt. He tags me ever
re where, she complained, pretendiI
m to be annoyed, but she was aspleasl
lse as Punch. She fed him out of a SLY
cup that one of the gentlemen vi
rv- came Up here with Mr. Tatum sent
"a him, and they had a buggy the 9th
an gentleman had sent. No baby "
ever better provided with luxuri
lat or with love. When I left he v
ere cuddling down in his mothers arm
He was sleepy and his eyes were clc
en- ing, and as he leaned his head agar
lad hers [ couldn't help noticing HI
,oe perfectly they matched. never 81
his anything like it nmyi life"
re- Then all the nurses spoke in cho1
a once more.
on "Tsn't it lovely?' said they.-C.
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