Pleas take good care of gay and i will come back
and get her when I am ritch. I thank you very mutch for such a
happy time and the white farm is the most butifull plase in the
whole whirld. TIM.
p. s. i wood not tell you if i was going to stay but billy penel
thros stones at the white cow witch i fere will get into her milk
so no more from TIM.
i am sorry not to say good by but i am afrade on acount of the home
so i put them here.
[Illustration: Kisses]
The paper fell from Miss Vilda's trembling fingers, and two salt tears
dropped into the kissing places.
"The Lord forgive me!" she said at length (and it was many a year since
any one had seen her so moved). "The Lord forgive me for a hard-hearted
old woman, and give me a chance to make it right. Not one reproachful
word does he say to us about showin' partiality,--not one! And my heart
has kind of yearned over that boy from the first, but just because he
had Marthy's eyes he kept bringin' up the past to me, and I never looked
at him without rememberin' how hard and unforgivin' I'd ben to her, and
thinkin' if I'd petted and humored her a little and made life
pleasanter, perhaps she'd never have gone away. And I've scrimped and
saved and laid up money till it comes hard to pay it out, and when I
thought of bringin' up and schoolin' two children I cal'lated I couldn't
afford it; and yet I've got ten thousand dollars in the bank and the
best farm for miles around.
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