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You wrap your talent in a Sunday-school lesson-paper and bury it down in Mackerelville." At this point Mrs. Callender put away her elaborate hand-finished stocking, saying softly: "Agatha, why do you tease Phillida so?" "Because she's such a goose," said the younger sister, stubbornly.
"Where is Bethlehem?" she began, reading from an old lesson-paper. "You kin search me!" promptly answered Chris. She ignored his remark, and passed to the next, who said, half doubtfully: "Ain't it in Alabama?" "No, it's in the Holy Land," she said. A sudden commotion arose in the back of the room.
It certainly could not be the first question on the lesson-paper; nor did it sound like certain well-meant admonitions to "try to improve the opportunity" and "learn all that they could." With each of these commencements they were entirely familiar; but this was something new. "Do you agree to the compact?" she asked, while they waited, her face bright with smiles.
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