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Sally was not in the procession, and the teacher, riding on, found her

lying face down a-house yard,

her s, and her slih she would still hold

to the earth that lay in freshly broken clods over her ently, and at first the girl only stared at

her out of wide, unseeing eyes

"You've nothing to keep you here now," said the older woe" She had learned from

Sally's lips that she lived alone with herthere now"

But the girl dreay, and shook her head with a wild torrent of

childish dissent

"No, I kain't, neither!" she declared, violently "I kain't!"

"Why, dear?" The teacher took the palpitating little figure in her

ar of this sweet

wood-thrush girl, and had seen both sides of life's coin enough to be

able to close her eyes and ears, and visualize the woht be