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DEW DROPS
VOL. 37. No. 16. WEEKLY.
DAVID C. COOK PUBLISHING CO., ELGIN, ILLINOIS.
GEORGE E. COOK, EDITOR.
APRIL 19, 1914.
A SYRUP-CAN MOTHER
BY MARY GILBERT.
Dorothy Deane and her little brother Laurence were standing by the
window watching for papa.
"There he comes!" cried Dorothy at last, and the children raced toward
the corner as fast as their chubby little legs would carry them.
"Careful now!" said papa warningly, as the two hurrying little figures
reached him. "Don't hit against my dinner pail!"
"What is in it?" asked Dorothy and Laurence in one breath, as they stood
on tiptoe, trying to peep inside the cover.
"Guess!" said papa, laughing. "A nickel to the one who guesses right!"
"Candy!" cried Laurence.
"Oranges!" said Dorothy.
Papa shook his head at both these guesses, and at all the others that
followed, until they had reached the house.
"Now let mamma have a turn," he said, holding the dinner pail up to her
ear.
"Why, it isn't--" mamma began, with a look of greatest surprise.
"Yes, it is!" papa declared. Then he took off the cover and tipped the
pail gently over in the middle of the kitchen table and out came ten of
the fluffiest, downiest little chickens that any of them had ever seen.
"Oh, oh, oh!" cried the children delightedly.
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