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Dorry snickered at this, but sedate Clover hushed him.

"You mustn't," she said; "its about the Bible, you know. Now John, it's your turn."

But Johnnie would persist in holding her hands over her mouth, while her fat little shoulders shook with laughter. At last, with a great effort, she pulled her face straight, and speaking as fast as she possibly could, repeated, in a sort of burst:

After which she took refuge again behind her fingers, while Elsie went on—