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Poor Jennie sat at her window. She wasn’t able to go to school because an illness made it difficult for her to walk. She ______ out at the street with a look of tiredness on her face.

“Oh, dear, what a long and ______ day it will be!” She looked sad and bored. She put her pale face against the______ of the window, he took off his hat and gave her a bright and friendly smile.

“What a nice boy he is !” Jennie said to ______, as he ran out of her eyes. “I am so glad he goes down this road on his way to school every day. When he smiles, it seems like having the sunshine.”

The boy didn’t know how much ______ he had done in making a pleasant day out of a lonely one for a sick little girl.

“Mother,” said the boy, George West, ______ he came home from school the other day, “I can’t help thinking about that poor little girl that I told you about. She looks so tired. I smiled at her again and talked with her today. I wish I could do something for her.”

“She told me they used to live on a farm. But her father died, and her mother was ill for so long that the ______ was all gone. Then her mother had to sell the farm and ______ to our city.”

“ ______ didn’t the girl go to school?” Mother asked in surprise.

“Because she can’t walk.” said the boy, ______, “My father must give them some money, so they can go back to their ______.”

“No,” said the mother, “he cannot do that, and they would not want him to. But maybe we can find some other ways to ______ them.”

“Tomorrow I am going to take Jennie some grapes.” the boy said.

“I will put some of pears into your basket, and go with you. But there is one thing we can ______ give, and sometimes it does more good than nice things to eat, or ______money.”

“What is that, Mom?” Then he guessed, “ Smiles!” “Yes ,”answered his mother, ”and it is a good plan to throw in a kind word or two with those______when you can.”