Bertie's Mission single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1885... 1885 Bertie's Mission
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US moral tale. A lame infant is cared for by his widowed mother in the home of a generous-hearted Irishwoman in the city, until the mother is killed in a street accident. Bertie feels himself a burden until he hears in church that each of us has a mission - and he awaits his. It is fulfilled when he dies saving an infant from a collapsing house. Sentimental; some effective characterisation. (PB)

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  • From Detroit Free Press

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