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 The beautiful new dress I bought would please my sister well; How do you like this India fan, I ask you, Minnie Bell?"

"O, it is very beautiful! I thank you, Alfred, dear; But yet you have not told me, what most I wish to hear." "Well, Minnie," said her brother, "if really you must know, When I sailed for California my Bible did not go.

"I know 'twas wrong to leave it out, for never have I seen A Bible or a Testament in any place I've been; We did not often think of God when we were digging gold; That is the truth; now, Minnie dear, pray don't begin to scold."

"Forgotten God for three long years! Alfred, can this be true? Dear brother, were you not afraid of God's forgetting you?"