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She would not be able to write

that Christmas letter There had been too many interruptions in the

self-imparted education, but soh It would take even Sa while to

become an artist He had said so, and the morbid mountain pride forbade

that she should write at all until she could do it well enough to give

him a complete surprise Itat all!

One day, as she alking ho place,

shes and the Scriptures in his pocket, and who practised both

for, and

threw one leg over the poreeted

"Evenin', Brother Spencer How air ye?"

"Tol'able, thank ye, Sally" The body-and-soul irl

awhile in silence, and then said bluntly: "Ye've done broke right s the hed It was an effort to laugh host of the old instinctive blitheness rippled into it

"I've jest come from old Spicer South's," volunteered the doctor

"He's ailin' pretty consid'able, these days"