Bessie and Her Friends

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Mathews Joanna Hooe. Bessie and Her Friends

I. JENNIE'S HOME

II. THE POLICE-SERGEANT'S STORY

III. LITTLE PITCHERS

IV. PAPA'S STORY

V. LIGHT THROUGH THE CLOUDS

VI. UNCLE RUTHVEN

VII. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR

VIII. FRANKY

IX "BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS."

X. TWO SURPRISES

XI. BLIND WILLIE

XII. MAGGIE'S BOOK

XIII. DISAPPOINTMENT

XIV. AUNT PATTY

XV. WILLIE'S VISIT

XVI. WILLIE'S RECOVERY

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Tea was over, the dishes neatly washed and put away by Mrs. Granby and Jennie, the three little boys snugly tucked in their cribs up-stairs, the baby lying quiet in its cradle, and Mrs. Granby seated at the corner of the table with her sewing. Jennie sat upon her father's knee, and Willie in his usual seat at his mother's side, and the policeman began his story.

"It might have been about two o'clock when, as I was at my desk, making out a report, Policeman Neal came in with a lost child in his arms, as pretty a little thing as ever I saw, for all she did look as if she had been having rather a hard time of it, – a gentleman's child and a mother's darling, used to be well cared for, as was easy to be seen by her nice white frock with blue ribbons, and her dainty shoes and stockings. But I think her mother's heart would have ached if she had seen her then. She had lost her hat, and the wind had tossed up her curls, her cheeks were pale and streaked with tears, and her big brown eyes had a pitiful look in them that would have softened a tiger, let alone a man that had half a dozen little ones of his own at home; while every now and then the great heavy sighs came struggling up, as if she had almost cried her heart out.

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"'Cause you don't have a guilty conscience; but if you had, you'd be, oh, so afraid!"

"How do you know I would?"

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