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(Copyright, by W. O. Chapman.
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bean, three balloons
alz boxes of lead Mi
diere," the head none
counted. "And a foot
ball. Who wants the
football V
"Johnny Ward," an
swered Nurse Blair,
half crying and half
laughing. "Isn't It
pitiful, Mlas GoughT'
Nurse Qough set
down her pencil and the memoran
dum and looked at the other wonder
lngly. "A football!" she reiterated.
"Then he doesn't realize?"
"No, 'poor little fellow. Would you
give It to him, MUs Gough?"
"What would the mother think?"
the head nurse asked, and then Nurse
Blair ceased all pretense and dabbed
her handkerchief against her eyes
openly. ,
"Let's ask Dr. Keith," she answered.
and that solved the difficulty for the
time being.
Johnny Ward was eight years old
and had been In the hospital for
nearly five weeks, ever since he was
knocked down by the baker'B wagon
while playing upon the street almost
in front of the hoBpltal entrance. He
was quite helpless below the waist,
and would always be so, said Dr.
'ill-
I've Brought Him This and These."
Keith, after the operation, unless
well, miracles had happened and such
caseB had got well before. So he said
nothing to the pretty young mother
who came day after day, wistful and
patient and always hopeful. Of lute
she had begun to suspect that her
only boy, her stay that was to be in
her later widowhood, would never
leave the building save In a wheeled
chair. But she kept her fears to her
self, and nobody had had the heart
to tell her.
