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It need scarcely be said that we pleaded earnestly and constantly with God to spare Mrs. Lü's life, if it would be His will, as we felt that she was so much needed for the work at Kucheng. He graciously heard and answered prayer, and Mrs. Lü began to take a turn for the better. Slowly, very slowly the improvement showed itself.
They thought they were keeping very quiet, but Lu's "Oh!" had wakened her father and Violet and they were lying quietly listening and laughing softly to themselves. There was a rustle of paper, then Gracie's voice in a loud whisper, "Oh another dolly for me! and I just know it's lovely! I can feel its hair, and its dress; it's all dressed!" Then Lulu's, "A potato! just a horrid, raw Irish potato!
"Well, I don't mind if you do take her just a bite," she said presently; and amid much laughter and sympathetic joking a tray was fitted out with various delicacies and entrusted to the willing hands of Antonia. Up she went, finding Lu's room in darkness, Lu herself lying sullenly awake, refusing to be comforted.
In the next book, "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home," I told the story of the two children going to the big city of New York, and of the queer things they saw and the funny things they did while there. Bunny and Sue had played together as long as they could remember. Bunny was about six or seven years old and Sue was a year younger.
After that the two children played Circus in the book of that name, and they had real animals in their show, though you could not exactly call them wild. "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home," is the name of the fourth book, and in the big city Bunny and Sue had stranger adventures than ever. After that Mr. Brown took the whole family to "Camp Rest-a-While."
She was not able to get away from that dream, feeling quite sure that it had some special teaching in it for her, and she turned to the writer to help her understand what it might mean. Recognizing that the dream was from God, that He was teaching her through these visions, we lifted our heart to God in prayer. We were standing beside a stack of straw in Mrs. Lü's yard.
If I should succeed it would not only give me something with which to occupy my time, but perhaps enable me to earn for the future; my money is not going to last so very long, in spite of all Chi Lu's economy." The idea pleased her, and she set about putting it into practice at once.
Lü's house, but he told us not to do any work to-day." "But how can you afford to lose a day's money like that?" "We do not lose anything. Mr. and Mrs. Lü give us our board and wages, just as if we were working for them the whole day." "Well, that is strange. They used to be careful over their money, and they seem to be so even now."
"I hope you won't catch them as you caught the turtle in the New York aquarium, the time we went to Aunt Lu's city home," said Mother Brown with a laugh. "No, I won't catch any mud turtles," promised Bunny. In the book before this one I've told you about Bunny catching the turtle on a bent pin hook with a piece of rag for bait. He had quite an exciting time.
We played Blindman's-buff till we were tired of that, Daniel, to Lu's great delight, coming out splendidly as Blindman, and evincing such "cheek" in the style he hunted down and caught the ladies, as satisfied me that nothing but his eyesight stood in the way of his making an audacious figure in the world.
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