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After a little while, a few days, in fact, Edna went up and spent a week

with her children in Iberville They were delicious February days, with

all the sulad she was to see the children! She wept for very pleasure when

she felt their little arainst her own glowing cheeks She looked into their faces with

hungry eyes that could not be satisfied with looking And what stories

they had to tell their s, the cows, the mules!

About riding to theback in the lake with

their Uncle Jasper; picking pecans with Lidie's little black brood, and

hauling chips in their express wagon It was a thousand times more fun

to haul real chips for old la the banquette on Esplanade Street!

She ith thes and the cows, to look at the

darkies laying the cane, to thrash the pecan trees, and catch fish in

the back lake She lived with theathering and filling herself with their young existence

They listened, breathless, when she told them the house in Esplanade

Street was croork