A LITTLE ORPHAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3011, 16 March 1926, Page 4

A LITTLE ORPHAN.

PAEKAKAivIKI FA T A LIT Y. CHILD’S WEARY WAIT. Propped comfortably up in bed between cushions, with picture books and toys scattered all round her, u little six-year-old girl waits anxiously in the children’s ward of the Wellington Hospital for her mother and father to come and take her away. ‘fl/in better now, inirsey,” the child murmurs* “so can’t I go.” “No, not* yet dear,” answers the nurse softly as she bends down and kisses the childish tears away. “It won't be long, though. Will it, eh?” “Oh, I don’t know,” answers the child, wistfully drawing up her little mouth, which quivers. “You see, Ive been here a long time now, nurse, haven’t I?” Then she becomes silent for a moment, lost in thought. The next instant she is asking for her mother again. “Where’s mummy, nursey? Where is she?” “She’s coming soon, dear.” “And she will bring daddy with her?” “Why, of course.” says the nurse. “Of course.” “Then 1 wish mummy would hurry up,” answers the child. “For I want them —they have never left me so long before.” But the little one who waits for her mother and father to come and lake her away will never see them