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"I often
read about him in papers I sell. I think he can fix her back. But not yet.
A Sunshine Nurse I know says nobody can help her back 'til she grows a lot
stronger and fatter. She has to have milk and be rubbed with oil, and not
be jerked for a while before it's any use to begin on her back."
"And has she the milk and the oil and the kindness?"
"You just bet she has," said Mickey. "Her family tends to that. And she
has got a bed, and a window, and her Precious Child, and a slate, and
books."
"That's all right then," said Douglas. "Any time you see she needs
anything Mickey, I'd be glad if you would tell me or Miss Winton. She
loves to do kind things to little sick children to make them happier."
"So do I," said Mickey. "And Lily is _my_ job. But that isn't robbing Miss
Joy Lady. She can love herself to death if she wants to on hundreds of
little, sick, cold, miserable children, in every cellar and garret and
tenement of the east end of Multiopolis. The only kind thing God did for
them out there was to give them the first chance at sunrise.


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