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"Are you glad to have ht hi her with a peculiar look

"Yes, Katy-did, very glad," he answered "I'vemuch but bother me"

"Why did you look funny at me just now?" Katy continued, and the deacon replied: "I was thinking how hard it would be for such a highty-tighty thing as you tothe road which youlife crushed out of you, as young lives so to be happy all ht to be," and Katy tossed into the air a wisp of the new-made hay

"I don't knoho Wilford Caht about it," the deacon rejoined "God marks out the path for us to walk in, and when he says it's best, we know it is, though soht and pleasant and others crooked and hard"

"I'll choose the straight and pleasant, then--why shouldn't I?" Kate asked, laughingly, as she seated herself upon a rock near which the hay cart had stopped

"Can't tell what path you'll take," the deacon answered "God knohether you'll go easy through the world, or whether he'll send you suffering to purify and ," Kate said aloud, while a shadow involuntarily crept for an instant over her gay spirits

She could not believe she was to be purified by suffering She had never done anything very bad, and hu learned from Wilford Ca slowly to the house, thinking to herself that therewhich should purify at last, but hoping she was not the one to who, and after that was over Kate announced her intention of going now to Linwood, Morris' home, whether he were there or not

"I can see the housekeeper and the birds and flowers, andher straw hat by the string and started fro with you?" Aunt Hannah asked, while Helen herself looked a little surprised

But Katy would rather go alone She had a heap to tell Cousin Morris, and Helen could go next time