She Ran as Fast as She Could and was Just in Time to Drag the Baby Out of the Way of the Wagon
Just at that minute the grocer’s horse and wagon dashed around the corner. Tiny saw in a moment what would happen if somebody didn’t run to the baby, so dropping her bag of sugar, which burst open and spread all over the ground, she ran as fast as she could and was just in the nick of time to drag the baby out of the way of the wagon.
“Bless me! Bless me!” panted the policeman, running up. “I hurried as fast as I could. If it hadn’t been for this little girl,” he continued to the baby’s mother, who was now crying, “that baby would—— Why, it’s the little girl that ran away! How do you do?”
“I didn’t run away,” sobbed Tiny; “I didn’t.”
“Well, well,” said the policeman, “I guess we can begin to forget it by this time. After the fire warning and this——” But Tiny was hurrying away to the store to get more sugar.
“I do hope they won’t worry at home,” she thought.
“That’s the girl,” said the grocer’s boy as Tiny went into the store. “She was just in time.”
He had been telling about the near-accident.
The grocer couldn’t thank Tiny enough for saving the baby’s life, and he asked her to ride in the grocery wagon so that she would get home sooner.
“I was so afraid you would worry, dear lady,” she said as she told the story, “and I spilled all the sugar—every bit.”