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their age can not be accurately told by 

 their size. 



When they asked him at the hos- 

 pital how old he was, he did not know. 

 Father and mother he had none, and his 

 home had been the city streets. Any old 

 box or barrel that would hold a dog was 

 good enough for him. 



By rare good luck, Peter nau been 

 knocked down by a fashionable team the 

 week before, and he now had a sweet 

 clean bed to sleep in, and plenty of good 

 food to eat. 



He loved to lie quietly and watch the 

 nurses, as they glided noiselessly up and 

 down, ministering to the little sufferers. 

 They had such kind faces that it made 

 Peter's heart glow just to look at them. 

 Somehow his idea of the world had 

 greatly changed since he came to the 

 hospital. Before he had thought it a 



