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"And most likely Lafe'll help you see with your eyes, just like Happy Pete and me!" Jinnie went on eagerly. "All the trees and hundreds of birds, some of 'em yellow and some of 'em red, an' some of 'em so little and cunning they could jump through the knothole in Peg's kitchen.... Don't you wish to see all that?" The small face brightened and the unseeing eyes flashed upward.
Jinnie was recovering the independent spirit which had dominated her when she had wandered alone on the hills away to the north. "I wouldn't wonder if I'd make fifteen cents some days," she remarked later at the supper table. "If you make ten, you'll be doin' well, an' you and Lafe'll probably bust open with joy if you do," snapped Peg.
"You're good 'nough for me and Happy Pete," she asserted, "and Lafe'll let you be his little boy too." The blind child gasped, and the girl continued assuringly, "Peg'll love you, too. She couldn't help it." "Peg?" queried Bobbie. "Oh, she's Lafe's wife. Happy Pete and me stay in her house." The blind eyes flashed with sudden hope. "Mebbe she'll love me a little! Will she?" "I hope so.
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