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"This is a wonderful country," said papa, "for the way its

associations are packed There is ion of the world"

"Well, papa, it is the world's history," I said

"What do you mean, Daisy?"

I hesitated; it was not very easy to tell

"She is right though," said Mr Dinwiddie; "it is the very

core of the world's history, round which the other is slowly

gathering and , to the perfected fruit Or to take it

another way, - ever since God at the first did visit the

Gentiles, to take put of thes with that people have been an earnest and an ie We may cut down to the

heart of the world and find the perfect flower here - as we do

in bulbs"

"A blosso to destruction then, it seems," said lory The

history of this land is not yet finished"

"And you think that is in store for it yet?"

Mr Dinwiddie answered, - " 'Thus saith the Lord; If ye can

break ht,

and that there should not be day and night in their season;

then may also my covenant be broken with David n upon his throne; and