FAITHFUL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 14, 27 August 1898, Page 7

FAITHFUL.

Children who are faithful, who can be trusted, are always loved. They are sure to grow up to lives of usefulness, and may bo depended on for every good work. But it is not the children alone who may win love by faithfulness. Here is a story which illustrates the fact,

One day last autumn, when chilly days first came on, baby Winifred wakened with a hoarse cry. The young mother's heart was filled with fear. The dreaded croup had come and she was alone ; there was no one to send for the doctor. Just then sober old Sally the tortoise-shell cat came slowly up the garden path from the barn. The mother remembered that Sally had been trained to carry notes to the store — grandpa's store at the foot of the lane — she had never been known to fail in carrying them. Calling old puss, she hastily wrote: " Send the doctor at once, baby has croup." She tied it about the soft, plump neck, and said : " Eun, Sally, as fast as ever you can 1 Eun on the fence ; hurry and give it to grandpa !" Off went Sally, never minding the impertinent dogs or friendly calls of her relations ; and the doctor was in the house in ten minutes. " I was in the street," he said, " at the store door, when old Sally came running on the fence as fast as her four feet could carry hez\ I feai-ed there was trouble and waited till she could reach us. I think Sally has never forgotten how I took fish-bones out of her throat with pincers, she always seems so glad to see me." The very next day Sally had a new collar on which was engraved, " From baby to her faithful postman." — Home Mission Monthly.