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"Who would think a e that way in ten years!" exclaimed Mrs Purblind; "would you believe it possible?"

"Not unless he had known many disappointments, and borne loads and cares beyond his years"

"I have never thought of that," she murmured, "I believe poor Joe has been disappointed too"

"He certainly has"

"It's too bad, and there's no help for it now," she added with a sob

"Don't say that," I urged, laying ate of heaven when you say 'no hope' There is always hope as long as there is a spark of life--any physician will tell you that If you can be patient--be strong to bear, and wait--if you can hts it and you, for weeks--er to undo, than to do--there is every hope He couldn't do this, but a woh, with God on her side"

The dullness left her face, and an unselfish light dawned in its place As she rose to go, she leaned over the other figure, and he looked up at her, with so of the old-tione--they went out together--and as I sat there thinking of it all, I heard a sudden rushing sound in the street

I ran to the door, just in tio pell-htened ani in ato help the occupants of the broken vehicle We brought them into the house--the man and woht, I knew them; they were some of my people--a German family, by the name of Abraham, who lived on a little farm just outside our suburb They had been to me typical representatives of a stupid class, who have all the hardships of life, and none of its soft lights and shades They were the kind that plant their pig-sty on the lake side of their house--put the pig-sty betwixt them and every other beauty, it seemed toof love, or any other joy Merely an animal existence is theirs

We fetched a doctor as speedily as possible--the parents were merely bruised, but the little child was badly hurt At first we feared she was dying, and it was a relief to be told that she would probably live