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 *light? Not that I approve on't in her, nor in them either, and I don't believe the Lord had much to do with such sanguinary desires, nor I don't believe the Lord wants you to read about it to the children."

"Well," sez Tirzah Ann, "I wuz mortified most to death. And once in the parlor, full of company, a hard thunderstorm came up, and Delight wuz awfully frightened, and she knelt right down and prayed for the Lord to stop that thunder, and got up and stamped her little foot to think it didn't stop to the very minute, and hollered out, 'Stop it, dear Lord! Stop it this minute!' What do you think of that?"

Sez I, "I think of that as I do of other human creeters who are scared and overthrown with the sorrow and pain of life. They pray to the Lord to stop their agony, and because He don't stop it at once they grow impatient and onbelievin', and mebby, as Miss Job did, feel to curse God and die. We can't wait no more than Delight did for the storm to clear the sky; we don't realize no more than she that mebby it wuz needed to cleanse the air from impurities and make us appreciate the sun-*shine and calm better. No, Delight and Jack and all the rest of us are blind creeters, and it don't do for one of us to condemn the other too much."

And then Tamer went on to tell how Jack had mortified her when she took him on a visit to some very stylish people.

That very forenoon, so Anna told me afterwards, Tamer had whipped Jack because she mistrusted he had not told her the exact truth—whipped him for not bein' open and candid.

And Tamer had warned Jack to be very polite at the