Bertha Weisser's wish

It was a dreary, wet October day, and drawing towards the twilight. The dull leaden-looking sky, the wet slippery pavements, the chilly, cross, uncomfortable passengers, gave to...

Madame Hansmann, as this old lady was called by the people of Biddy’s house, was not yet weaned from the dear _Vaterland_, as she called her native country, and liked nothing so...

As the days passed, and Christmas-tide drew nearer, Berty’s wish gained fuller and fuller possession of her childish heart. To get a Christmas tree for these poor little childre...

Upon that same October evening, another little girl, near Bertha’s age, sat by the window, looking out into the twilight. It was no dreary back-court, however, which met her eye...

Berty rose next morning with the firm belief that her wish was to be granted, though in what way she could not tell. She was not so unreasonable as to expect the coveted pleasur...

Tim came back to the crossing towards night, his round face rosier and merrier than ever, and a new little splint basket on his arm, which Berty would have wondered over at any...

If Tim had meant to revenge himself for all Berty’s crossness, he could not have chosen any means more certain than his parting-words to do it. In the tumult of her thoughts, an...

Berty would scarcely have sat there so securely, though, if she had known who was making his way, through all the downtown maze, towards the very house in front of which she and...

When Berty came to herself, she was lying on a bed, and the strange gentleman was bending over her, with a very anxious expression upon his pleasant face. Her first impulse was...

Dr. John was met at the door on his return by little Mary who had been sitting at the window an hour or more, watching for him to come. She had worked off a little of her enthus...

The morning sunshine streamed through the lofty windows of the children’s ward, lighting up cheerfully the snowy beds and the pale faces of their little occupants, and waking Be...

Mary’s plan, which developed itself the next day, turned out to be a project for taking the children, in their new clothes, to visit their sister at the hospital. She had stipul...