"May be, if you should ask Him, God would make you think what is the best thing to say in your lecture," persisted the child.
"Laws, Fanny, I ken think of them ere things myself. All the help I want is a leetle mite from you about the spellin.
"Wycoff now appeared looking very grave and reported Hank, "stone dead."
CHAPTER XXXII.
The May day Weddings—Miss Orrecta Lippincott's Surprise—How old Lovers Behave.
pring opened slowly. It is true, at the first fierce glance of the sun, the sensitive snow dissolved in tears; but he was forced to call to his aid the strong winds to blow long upon the ice-bound river, ere it yielded and permitted the beautiful steamers again to ride upon its throbbing bosom.