p. 9 | WHEN GRANDPA ASKED THE BLESSING

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 15.

WHEN GRANDPA ASKED THE BLESSING.

By Florence Josephine Boyce

GATHERED at the breakfast table, age and youth had met; Grandpa, old and silver-haired, tapping with his cane, Looked above his spectacles at the prattling set, Bent his head above his plate and tapped his cane again. All was silent save the voice of laughing, blue-eyed Ned, Telling what a time he had to climb the lightning rod, When, in whispers, baby Will touched his arm and said: “Keep ’till, Eddie; don’t you know that grandpa ’poke to God?” — Florence Josephine Boyce.