The Widowed Bride — page 46: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE WIDOWED BRIDE. 3” ber, had it not been for the significant fact that the gipsy ~ bundle had assumed larger proportions. Little Alice no- ticed it at once, with the quickness of perception natu.al to her. ‘‘What have you put in your bundle, Mother Meg?” she asked, for by that name the woman had instructed the little girls to call her. ‘*What makes it so big?” “Only some clothes as a friend of mine axed me to call for on the way; don’t be a meddlin’,” sharply exclaimed the gipsy, as Alice was about to examine for herself. ‘‘She’s awful particular, and she’d know if you so much as laid a finger on ’em. ‘There, now, let’s be off, for I’ve got to be in London by noon.” And in the excitement of these novel tidings the little girls forgot aught else. (Eo) comicbooks