“Well, then he can see a good deal further than we can. Do our spirits have new eyes put in ’em when they get up to heaven?”
“I don’t know. Perhaps they merely have their sight made better.”
“Why, does spirits take deir old eyes wif ’em to hebben, an’ leave all de rest part of ’em in de deader?” asked Toddie.
Mrs. Burton realized that she had been too hasty in assuming knowledge of spiritual physiognomy, and she endeavored to retract by saying:
“Spiritual eyes and bodily eyes are different.”
“Does dust and choo-choo cinders ever get into spirit eyes, an’ make little boy andzels cry, and growed-up andzels say swear wordsh?” asked Toddie.
“Certainly not. There’s no crying or swearing in heaven.”
“Then what does angels do with the water in their eyes, when they hear music that makes ’em feel as if wind was blowin’ fro ’em?” asked Budge.
Mrs. Burton endeavored to change the subject of conversation to one with which she was more familiar, by asking Budge if he knew that there were hills a hundred times as high as Hawksnest Rock.
“Goodness, no! Why, I should think you could look right into heaven from the tops of them. Can’t you?”