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 CHAPTER V SALUTE YOUR BRIDES

THE Major did talk her around, and when morning came that austere lady had an old suit of Billy's clothes ready for the little darkey. As she gave him his break- fast out on the back porch she smiled kindly on him. Miss Minerva usually smiled when she fed the hungry.

The kindly Sam Lamb and his wife Sukey consented to take Wilkes Booth Lincoln as a temporary lodger in their already over- flowing cabin. Miss Minerva did not ap- prove of the colored room-mate for Billy, and the Major deemed it wise to give in to her on that point.

"School will open in a few days and then all of the children will be occupied for more