The San Francisco call., 1910-03-05
THE STORY OF THE DOLL WHO HAD A BANK ACCOUNT

who can take medicine with a smile
lie poured some into a spoon and when
he turned round again. sure enough.
Big Lucy was as smiling as ever and
the medicine was gone--but Kathie
still cried
Il can't!' she said. Kittie began to
cry too, and mother suddenly went out
OF the room.
IN tell you what I'll do" said
father. "Ill give you each ; cents for
every spoonful of medicine you take
with smile Mother can keep track
of the smiles and I'll put the money
in the bank for you, Let's see who
gets the most. We won't tell mother
about the money, and then we can buy
her present.
Kathie stopped crying. "Wil You
give Big Lucy cents, too@
Father looked at Big Lucy who
smiled back at him reassuringly.
yes sale he Il think she'll have
the most Of anybody"
At the end of the week father
brought home three bank books They
read, Miss Katherine Curtis Allison,
$235" Miss Kathleen Cramer Allison,
$215" Miss Lucy Big, $2.55."
Kathie was sicker than Kittie, so it
was harder for her to smile, but Big
Lucy had never failed once. Father
had had to call her Lucy Big on the
books to give her real name, but at
home she was still Big Lucy. In the
end she had almost 500 Kitty had
almost SIS and Kathie almost SIS. They
spent all their time alone talking
about mothers present.
They had had their first walk out of
doors and the big red sign was down
from the front of the house when
father came down" with diphtheria
The twins knew nothing about it. be-
cause Miss Lucy took them and Big
Lucy; who had been baked in the oven,
on the train to grandma and grandpas.
There they had new little lamb and
Peggie's last kittens to play with, as
well as Big Lucy. And pretty soon
mother came-alone.
Late in the year Fred Gray, who was
cashier of the bank in fathers place
and who must have found out what he
wanted to know because he was going
to marry Miss Lucy-wrote and asked o
for the twins bank books. Mother
sent the two, but not Big LScy's be-
cause she didn't know anything about
that and the twins didn't like to tell
her because Kathie had lost it in the
hay NOW. They thought they had lost
the money and pretty soon they forgot
all about it,
Ten years can make a lot of differ
ence, but the greatest change may very
we'll be the one in peoples ages When
Kittie and Kathie were and Miss
Lucy was IS there was all the differ
ence in the world in their ages, but
when they were is and she was %
they were about the same age, or at
least it seemed so to Miss Lucy, and
that was how they happened to cone
back to visit her in Groton Corners.
She wouldn't let them call her Miss
Lucy any more, which shows that she
must have felt younger. though she
said it was because she wasn't Miss
Lucy any more How could she be
when she had littleducy and baby
Fred of her own?
1t was the little Lucy just as old as
they had been when they left Groton
Corners, who brought their childhood
back to them most clearly. They
played with her and told her stories
Just as her mother had played with
them. Finally, one night, at the dinner
table, Kathie commenced to tell her
about Big Lucy.
"She was as big as Little Fred"
Kathie began. "And she had hair that
would really comb and eyes that would
really open and shut and she had
real bank account My father put
money in the bank for her, just as he
did for us for taking medicine. He
had to give her, last name, so he
called her Lucy Big"
Whats that about Lucy Big?" Fred
Gray stopped talking to Kittie and
leaned across the table. Did you say
you knew Lucy BigT'
SO then they told him all about the
medicine, and how Kathie lost the
bank book in the haymow. And he
told them how for 10 years the money
had been on the banks books waiting
for Lucy Big TO come and claim IT, IT
WAS not $40 any more. but almost S2n