He brought forward a great heavy quarto with old broken clasps, and opened it.
"I shall read out loud the first few words and then you shall learn the letters one by one. Keep your eyes and your mind open and come closer."
So saying, Seth, taking the forefinger of Sally's right hand as a marker, read slowly the words, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
[CHAPTER XII.]
Seth Dumbrick never raised his eyes from his work the next morning when Sally Chester, who had been standing silently by his side for full five minutes, suddenly said:
"Pharer come agin last night, Daddy."
"I thought he would, Sally."
"'Baby must have a name given to her,' says Pharer, and it's got to be done proper.' 'What name?' says I. 'I don't know,' says Pharer----"
"Not much of a spirit," murmured Seth; "not by any means what I should call a tiptop spirit."
"'There's only one man,' says Pharer," continued Sally, somewhat discomposed, "'as can give baby a proper name, and that man's Daddy Dumbrick.'"