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the valley; not back to the sugar-tree and that yet s pyre, but

to the woods on this side of the streaht out, he went; and took his seat beside the child She

wasin her sleep, and he bent over and soothed her When she was

quiet he still kept her hand in his, as he sat there waiting for the dawn

He gave the child sether he and Juba must care for her

until they could rejoin the expedition: then the Governor, as so fond

of children, ive her for nurse old Doentle as a wo

Hausfrau would take her, for the sake of the scrubbing and lifting to be

gotten out of those small hands and that slender fra of the vestry there The next Orphan

Court would bind her to soht not)

be kind to her, and so there would be an end to the one, and the east was dull

pink, like faded roses A ribbon of silverthe course of the

streah the woods that were

changing fro rose from the

dew-drenched earth, and in the countless trees of the forest the birds

began to sing