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 subject, and spozed he had forgot all about ornamentin' the grave, he had begun to look considerable bright, when all of a sudden he broke out real confidential: "Don't you think it would be a good plan if I took over a little mite of cheese? Grandma wuz dretful fond of sage cheese."

Oh, dear me! I had to go all over the hull ground agin. it took sights of patience and breath.

But to reckon backwards. That night after Grandma Bodley's funeral there come up a heavy thunder shower, and I hearn Jack call out; he slept out of our room in Delight's little crib that night, and I got up and went to him to try to soothe him, and I sez:

"Jack, are you afraid?"

His head wuz way down under the bedclothes, I could only see the ends of one or two curly locks, and I sez agin, still more soothin'ly:

"Can't you trust the hand, Jack, that leads you through fair days? That same hand is leadin' you through storms, Jack; can't you trust Him?"

And Jack answered from way down under the bed-*clothes, "I am trusting Him jest as hard as I can, Aunt Samantha, and I am most skairt to death."

Thinks I to myself how much like old believers that is: we trust the Lord jest as hard as we can, and yet oft-*times we are most skairt to death

"When any waves of trouble rise Acrost our peaceful breasts."

Well, Hamen and Tamer stopped for Jack a few days after that; they had stayed a day or two with Alzina to help her settle things. They offered her a home with them, so Tamer said, and she thought it wuz very foolish