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Show PRINCESS MARY‘S GIFT BOOK He can look to the Light, 110 can keep his thought white, He can fight the great fight, He can do with his might "'hat is good in Gods sight- Tbase are (\l‘c'l'l/UIII things //c ((171 do. / . gk , _=._ :7 - ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT BY \V. PETT RIDGE Though his years be but few, He can march in the queue Of the Good and the Great, ""ho battled with fate And won through- T/lut's a. womiciful thing he can Painting by M. E. GRAY and Drawings by LEIVIS BAUMER I KNEW a child who-# Some friends of mine have a daughter, and she Not very many years ago, I remember hearing Once upon a time-that is the proper way to begin this story- once upon a time there was a little girl, of about the usual age, who lived near to St. John's Wood Road Station, handy to Lord's cricket ground, and not far from the Zoological Gardens. You would think that any one who, in the summer, could look out of her window and see Mr. P. F. \Varner batting, and in the winter was able to go any afternoon she liked, to watch the lions and tigers take high tea at four, ought to have been as happy as the days were long; cheerful even when the And-in each little thing He can follow The King. Yes in each smallest thing He can follow The King- He can follow The Christ, The King, days were short. Yet she was not entirely satisfied; it may be sald that her one failing was a spirit of discontent. \Vhen grown-ups are d15contented, it is called ambition; but that is another matter. On a certain Tuesday evening in November it happened that she felt quite pleased with the world until about seven o‘clock. Seven in the evening was the hour that frequently made her pecvish. Nurse left her alone for a minute to see if everything was ready upstairs, and in that minute the little girl jumped on a chair and moved back the long hand. She was reading her picture-book With great interest when nurse returned. 115 |