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"Sit down, my lamb, my lamb!" were the first words I remember

"Janet, shut the door, and tell anybody I am busy Sit you

down here and rest My lamb, ye're all shaken Daisy, my pet,

where have you been?"

I sat down, and she did, but I leaned over to the arms that

still enfolded me and laid my head on her bosom She was

silent now for a while And I wished she would speak, but I

could not Her arms pressed me close in the embrace that had

so comforted my childhood She had taken off my bonnet and

kissed me and s while

"What is it?" she said at last "I know you're left,I heard of your loss, while you were so far away froone from your world"

"He was happy - he is happy," I whispered

"Let us praise the Lord for that!" she said in her broadest

Scotch accent, which only ca

"But he was nearly all an"

"Ay," she said "We have but one father And yet, no, my bairn

Ye're not left desolate"

"I have been very near it"