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 you, mother," said the daughter. "I don't see why they have such persons."

"Why, they are very useful sometimes. I hope he will come back this way again, for I want to hear what he says."

Susan now went into the kitchen to assist Biddy in preparing dinner.

"Ah, Miss Susan," said the girl, "it is not for the likes o' me to be spakin' to my betters, but I fears it is ill with Miss Nattie, for I was dhramin' fearsome dhrames of her all the blessed night through. One time she was hangin' on a tree, another, she was drownin' in a pond, and then agin the evil spirit was runnin' away with her as fast as iver he could. Shure, an' I've aboot made up my miad that I'll never lay eyes on the darlint agin."

"I wouldn't talk about it thus, Biddy," said Susan; "it only makes you feel worse. While all is uncertainty, we are apt to imagine many dreadful things not likely to be true. I trust that