BETTY FOE PLUCK!

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 20

BETTY FOE PLUCK!

Betty Nichol was a small girl of ten years who lived with her widowed ■ mother in a small cottago which, al- ~ ... , , . , „ though it was cheaply and barely fur-

was done sho started on the fancier stitches, "for," she said, "the sewlnS mllst be done just the same, in fact ovel' mor° so, because of tho doctor's biJl."

nished, was always spick and span. . Mrs. Nichol worked hard making and niending garments for people in thovillage. : . .. One morning Mrs. Nichol was not feeling too well, and Betty wont off to school feeling rather uneasy, but she soon forgot it in her play. But when sho opened the door on returning, a great shock awaited her, for there, lying face downward in a dead faint, was her mother. She revived her with a little water and put her into bed. After seeing to all necessities, Betty an off for a doctor, in spite of .W.. mother's complaints that they couldn't, afford it. ~ ~ That night Betty set to work and did all the plain sewing. After that

Tho news soon, spread that Mrs. Nichol waa ill, for she was vorv ponu]ar in the village. .It was not long before they realised that the sewing . wa s being done just the same, and .people flocked in to see who was doing it. When they saw that it was Betty they paid a much higher price, because they said it was worth it Betty's mother was able to go to a seaside town for a long holiday where she soon got well, ' And if you were to go to that little village you would find Betty, now in her 'teens, serving in a small shop which she and her mother have bought, ail( j their purse is always full | "QUEEN O' THE HILLS" (11). Bclmont.