Mother Carey's Chickens
ered when mother said we were not to look upon Beulah as a place of hiding?"
"She did n't stay withered long," Kathleen remarked.
"And she said just the right thing to dear old Gilly, for Fred Bascom is filling his head with foolish notions. He needs father to set him right."
"We all need father," sighed Kitty tearfully, "but somehow mother grows a little more splendid every day. I believe she's trying to fill father's place and be herself too!"
