She was crazy with fear about the Orphings' Home getting her,
while I wasn't any too sure myself. I flagged one Swell Dame, and like to
got caught in a trap and lost her. Then my Sunshine Nurse helped me all I
needed; so not knowing how much women were alike, I didn't care to go
rushing in a lot on Lily just to find out. She was a little too precious
to experiment with.
"That Home business has been a big, grinning, 'Get-you-any-minute devil,'
peeping 'round the corner at me ever since mother went. I could dodge him
for myself, but I couldn't take any _risks_ for Lily. _These Orphings'
Homes ain't no place for children_. 'Stead of the law building them, and
penning the little souls starving for home and love in them, what it
_should_ do is to make people who pay the money to run them, take the
children in their _own homes_ and love and raise them _personal_. If every
family in the world that has no children would take two, and them that has
would take just one, all the Orphings' Homes would make good hospitals and
schools; while the orphings would be fixed like Lily and I are.
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