Runaway Alice

“If you keep running away, Alice,” says Miss Cannon, “I can’t find the right home for you.”
“Perhaps I won’t ever find the right home,” orphaned Alice says sadly.
Then-for just a few weeks- Alice goes to stay on a farm with the Potters. They are the happiest weeks in Alice’s life. No one could want a wonderful home or a better father and mother then Mr. and Mrs. Potter.
But Alice can’t forget that she heard Mrs. Potter say, “You know, Miss Cannon, I really want a boy.”