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There were tiny slips of paper in Julia Cloud's orn Bible, and she turned to the first one shyly It was such neork to her to be talking about these things to any but her oorshipful soul

The two young people settled back in coaze upon the far sky overhead They were eh

"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of the blue above them took on a personality, and becas It was as if some one whom they had known all their lives, quite familiar in their daily life, should suddenly have stood up and declared himself to have been an eye-witness toclouds was no longer a diversion from the subject in hand Their eyes were riveted with hts as they lay and listened, astonished, fascinated It was the first time it had ever really entered into their consciousness that there had been a ti Whether it were true or not had not as yet becoh to their fairy-story days to accept a tale while it was being read, and revel in it

The quiet voice went on: "And on the seventh day God ended his hich he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his hich he had made And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his hich God created and et tired, would He?" burst forth Leslie, turning big inquiring eyes on Julia Cloud

"I don't know, unless He did it for our sakes to set us an exahtit, you know And that would i so I'm not very wise, you know, and because I may not be able to answer your questions doesn't mean they can't be answered by some one who has studied it all out I've often wished I could have gone to college and studied Greek and Hebrew, so I could have read the Bible in the original"

"H', wouldn't it? I alondered why they did it, but I don't know but I'll study them myself I think I'd enjoy it if there was a real reason besides just the discipline of it they are always talking about when you kick about es"