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Rh and with a smile, kissing her daughter twice,—saying, first—"That's for 'thank you; and then again—"and that's for 'good-night,—she retired to rest.

The next morning, the family could not rouse her. She slept gently on—still slept. The day wore on to night, and still she gently slept; once there dawned a slight shadow of a smile—then the breathing was a little heavier—and then, with a single sigh, the land of clouds and death was left for that of light and life, on December 20th, 1866.