Press enter after choosing selection

Why He Wept

Why He Wept image
Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
September
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Why He Wept.

Helen had been only a few days in the house where Walter was the seven-year-old son and heir when it was perfectly clear that she had made a deep impression on his already susceptible heart. One afternoon he brought a footstool and, placing it in front of her, asked her if she would marry him. 

Helen was a little more than four times as old as Walter, and her unmarried state was a matter of keen interest to her friends. She looked at the boy gravely for a moment and then said:

"Why, I can't answer that question offhand, Walter. You will have to wait and give me time to think it over."

Suddenly the boy dropped his head on her knee and began to cry bitterly. 

"What is the matter, Walter?" she asked, patting his head. 

"I was just thinking," he sobbed out, "that you'd be dead and gone before I was old enough to marry you." -- New York Press.