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 “whipped like old missis allers whipped me,” a thing Miss Ophelia could not bring herself to do.

As in all cases where once a person has been caught stealing, there is a lurking suspicion against them. So it was with Topsy, who, when little Eva was slowly passing from this world, used to pick flowers and take them to Eva’s bedside.

One day she was caught, and not until Eva herself informed the captors that she had told Topsy to pick the flowers and