Brown, looking at his wife in some
surprise.
"I don't know," answered the children's mother. "It's the first I've
heard of it. Bunny and Sue often go to the little corner store. It's
handy when Mary wants something in a hurry."
"Tell me more about Mrs. Golden, Bunny," asked his father.
Thereupon the story of the cross man and the money the old lady owed to
the grocery company was told as well as the children could tell it.
"It's too bad!" exclaimed Mrs. Brown. "I want you children to be as kind
as you possibly can to Mrs. Golden. Help her all you can, Bunny and
Sue."
"And will you buy things there?" asked Sue.
"Why, yes," agreed her mother. "We will trade there all we can. Mr.
Gordon, the big grocer, can afford to lose a little of our custom."
"Do you think you could give her any money out of your bank, Daddy?"
asked Bunny. "And she could give it back after she got her legacy."
"I'll see about it," was the smiling answer. "I know some of the men in
the Grocery Supply Company," went on Mr. Brown, "and I'll ask them to be
a bit easy with the old lady.
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