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From 407 bales in 1841 the cotton output fell rapidly, perhaps because of restriction prompted by the low prices, to 198 bales in 1844. Then it rose to the maximum of 438 bales in 1848. Soon afterwards Cain's long service ended, and after two years during which I. Livingston was in charge, I.N. Bethea was engaged and retained for the rest of the ante-bellum period.
"Well, I certainly have tried to make myself as pleasant as possible," said the pansy, but it spoke so low that nobody heard it except the boy whose ears were sharpened by illness. "I've brought you some more," said Bethea, holding out her bouquet, "shall I put them in the tumbler with the little one?"
The three-cornered scrap of garden by the elm tree, with a border of stones, and a neat trodden path down the middle, belonged to little Bethea. It grew things in a most wonderful way. Stocks and marigolds, primroses and lupines, Canterbury bells and lavender; all came out at their different seasons, and all flourished for Bethea watered and tended them so faithfully that they loved her.
Bethea took a few of the flowers out, and went round to the different beds offering one or two, shyly, until she came to a thin pale boy a new patient, whom she had never seen before. "He's only been here a fortnight," said the woman in a whisper, "and we can't get him to take any interest in anything I don't know what we're going to do with him!" "Is he very ill?" asked Bethea, wistfully.
On a soft spring day Bethea stood by her garden with scissors and basket, snipping away at the brightest and best of her children; carefully, so that she might not hurt them, and with judgment, so that they might bloom again when they wished to. "Do you know where you're going?" she said "To the Hospital.
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