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THE CHILD OF THE CHILDREN.
By Ethel Turner.
Illustrated by Frances Ewan.
SHE was an odd little mite, with eyes that were solemn when any of her committee were about, and humorously twinkling when she was quite alone. The droop of her mouth was meek, but the swift, laughing, upward curve betrayed a wicked and disturbing comicality. She was twelve.
The suburb was a large and wealthy one, and the women thereof, being led by an altar-cloth, gift-slipper and organ-fund parson, had tended for long into missionary ways.
They had made Turkey twill frocks for the little Indian wives, tea-cosies and pin-cushions to be sold for the benefit of the unspeakable,, and therefore romantic. Celestial. Even the children constructed scrap-books, woollen balls, and dolls, in their thankfulness that they were not as other infants were, and dropped chocolate-destined pennies into a money-box that gaped hungrily to establish mission schools within the mysterious Great Wall.
But the cabling of distant horrors and the simultaneous induction of a man into the pulpit who called attention to the heathen in their midst produced a reaction. They held Dorcas societies, and presented their own poor with thick
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