Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Harper's Young People, Vol. 6: An Illustrated Weekly; November 4, 1884
Granny Maguire wasn't one of that kind that turn a grudge over and hold it. She began to mourn over the loss of Mop, and couldn't do enough for him when he got home again. She said she was so glad the goslings were out of the way, for she was getting so stiff with the rheumatism that she couldn't have cared for them, and Mop was a rare good dog. She had a warm heart, and always looked on the best side, poor old Granny Maguire!
I'm getting on now to that curious Christmas present of Teddy's to my mother. It was strange how it all came about. Mother says there's a Providence in these things.
About the first of December Granny Maguire was taken down to her bed, and Teddy had to stay at home and take care of her. I couldn't get out to see Teddy very often. I never was strong in cold weather, and it worried Pop and mother to have me out of their sight. Since Ted was kept at home, they were always afraid some harm would come to me, and hadn't that faith in my sturdy crutch that had come to me through a long and close fellowship. It was the 23d of December and a big snow-storm brew ing, when a boy from Teddy s neighborhood called out to me that Ted wanted to see me that day sure, that some thing awful had happened; and all at once the boy blurt ed out, Old Granny Maguire is dead!
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