Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Cover art] [Illustration: "’WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DREAM!’" (See page 187)] IN THE MORNING GLOW SHORT STORIES By ROY ROLFE GILSON AUTHOR OF "Miss Primrose" "The Flower of Youth" Etc. Etc. ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS Published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers Copyright, 1902, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ Published October, 1902. TO MY WIFE *Contents* GRANDFATHER GRANDMOTHER WHILE AUNT JANE PLAYED LITTLE SISTER OUR YARD THE TOY GRENADIER FATHER MOTHER *Illustrations* "’WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DREAM!’" . . . . . . _Frontispiece_ "WHEN GRANDFATHER WORE HIS WHITE VEST YOU WALKED LIKE OTHER FOLKS" "YOU STOLE SOFTLY TO HIS SIDE" "WATCHED HIM MAKE THE BLUE FRAGMENTS INTO THE BLUE PITCHER AGAIN" "THE SAIL-BOATS HE WHITTLED FOR YOU ON RAINY DAYS" "YOU CLUNG TO HER APRON FOR SUPPORT IN YOUR MUTE AGONY" "YOU WATCHED THEM AS THEY WENT DOWN THE WALK TOGETHER" "TO AND FRO GRANDMOTHER ROCKED YOU" "YOU SAID ’NOW I LAY ME’ IN UNISON" "MOTHER TUCKED YOU BOTH INTO BED AND KISSED YOU" "THEY TOOK YOU AS FAR AS THE BEDROOM DOOR TO SEE HER" "’BAD DREAM, WAS IT, LITTLE CHAP?’" "’FATHER, WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU DON’T SAY ANYTHING, BUT JUST LOOK?’" "’MOTHER,’ YOU SAID, SOFTLY" "THE PICTURE-BOOK" "BEFORE YOU WENT TO BED" *Grandfather* When you gave Grandfather both your hands and put one foot against his knee and the other against his vest, you could walk right up to his white beard like a fly—but you had to hold tight. Sometimes your foot slipped on the knee, but the vest was wider and not so hard, so that when you were that far you were safe. And when you had both feet in the soft middle of the vest, and your body was stiff, and your face was looking right up at the ceiling, Grandfather groaned down deep inside, and that was the sign that your walk was ended. Then Grandfather crumpled you up in his arms. But on Sunday, when Grandfather wore his white vest, you walked like other folks. [Illustration: "WHEN GRANDFATHER WORE HIS WHITE VEST YOU WALKED LIKE OTHER FOLKS"]