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The music played softer and softer the melodium, the cordine, and the fiddle and with it, keepin' time with it, the light come softer, too; so lookin' up the scholars seen there in the celestial glow, a solemn company gethered round the boy the he-roes of old Hercules and General Grant, Joshuay and Washington all the mighty fighters of history.
"And a washin'-machine," said she. "And two hogs." "And he tells me he's going to git her a melodium." "Indeed," said I. "Why, I thought he was never going back." "To sech a lovely home?" The old woman held up her hands. "He's goin' jest as soon as he gets that me-yule and you're able." She laid her hand on my forehead. "There," she cried, "it's painin' you again, poor thing that terrible spot."
''Fraid she won't never be very good t' worlt. 'Why not? I enquired. 'Han's are too little an' white, he answered. 'She won't have to, I said. He cackled uproariously for a moment, then grew serious. 'Her father's rich, he said, 'the richest man o' Faraway, an I guess she won't never hev anything t' dew but set'n sing an' play the melodium. 'She can do as she likes, I said.
It come soft first, and hushed the school, and froze the scholars like statutes. Louder it come and louder a heavenly choir the melodium, the cordine, and the fiddle. Then a great white light flooded the school-room. It blinded the boys, and it blinded the girls.
Just one glimpse the scholars had, for the music struck up louder, and the light glowed brighter and brighter till it blinded them. Softer and softer the music come the melodium, the cordine, and the fiddle. It sounded like marchin', they said, and they heard the tramp, tramp, tramp of the sperrit soldiers. Then there was quiet only the roarin' of the stove and the snuffin' of the little ones.
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