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'Can't, said the boy coolly, 'I'm goin' ter tie it to Poll's balloon, an' let go of the string, an' then it'll go straight to heaven, and, with the letter reposing in his cheek, he began to sing vociferously: "I want ter be an angel, An' with the angels stand; A crown upon my forehead, A harp within my hand." 'Git mad now, P'liney, quick, fer I want that knife orful.
She had read somewhere that 'all earnest, pure, unselfish men who lived their lives well, helped to form the hero God let none of them be wasted. A thousand unrecorded patriots helped to make Wellington. It seemed to her Wellington had the best of it. 'Help me git dressed, P'liney, demanded Lemuel, her youngest step-brother, from his trundle bed.
I'm goin' to chew it up. It's orful thin, 'taint no good anyhow. You won't miss it, P'liney, and crushing the letter into a small wad he put it into his capacious mouth. It was, as Lemuel said, 'awful thin, not much like the volumes which Belle usually wrote. She had not been able to distinguish the writing, but, of course, it must be from Belle.
'Give it to me now, Lemuel, she said, as he came into supper; 'you've had enough fun for to-day. 'Can't P'liney. I used it fer a gun wad to shoot a squirrel with, an' the cat ate the squirrel, letter an' all. Yer don't want me ter kill the cat, do yer, P'liney? 'Oh! Lemuel, she cried softly, 'how could you? How could you do it? She sighed sorrowfully.
To make darkness light, that was Christ's mission, and hers. She was putting her whole soul in the effort. 'What makes P'liney so different? queried Leander of Stephen and John, as they rested from their daily task of cutting wood. 'She used ter be as mad as hops if yer mussed up yer clothes, an' now she only laughs an' sez, "Never mind, if it's a stain that soap will conquer."
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