to-night. We'll persuade Bob to go back to school on the promise that
he shall come into my office for the summer vacation and be taught
shorthand and typing. Doctor Stacey says Mr. Parkney has overworked
himself and must go slow for a year. I am trying to find him a job
where he won't have heavy work to do."

The next day Mother and Grandma Horton went to call on Mrs. Parkney,
and they carried some of Harriet's famous chicken soup with them.

"Harriet always sends some to my friends when they are sick," explained
Mother Horton to Mrs. Parkney and, of course, when she said that, no
one could feel they were being offered charity.

While Mother and Grandma Horton were visiting Mrs. Parkney, Sunny Boy
and Grandpa Horton went downtown to buy the skates for Bob. They spent
a long time in the shop, looking at the skates and asking the clerk
questions, and finally they bought a beautiful pair of skates "on
shoes" of the best leather. The clerk put them in a box and told Sunny
Boy he was carrying home the best skates in the store.

"I hope Bob will like them," said Sunny Boy, skipping along beside
Grandpa Horton. "Oh, look, here comes the other grandpa!"

The tall old gentleman coming toward them saw Sunny Boy, and smiled.
He stopped and held out his hand.

"Well, if it isn't my little ice-pond friend!" he said cordially. "Did
you catch cold from those wet feet?"

He shook hands with Grandpa Horton, and Sunny Boy answered that he had