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The Mountain Girl
The Mountain Girl

"Mother sent me up to see could I do anything for you. You are always that kind and we can't do much."

  

"And you never come up when I am at home?"

  

"It isn't every time I can get to go up, I'm that busy here most days."

  

"Only the days when I am absent can you 'get to go up'?" he would say teasingly. "Don't I ever deserve a visit?"

  

"Cass don't get time fer visitin' these days. Since Frale lef' she have all his work an' hern too on her, an' mine too, only the leetle help she gets out'n Hoyle, an' hit hain't much," said the mother. "Doctah, don't ye guess I can get up an' try walkin' a leetle?"

  

"If you will promise me you will only try it when I am here to help you, I will take off the weight, and we'll see what you can do to-day."

  

Cassandra loved to watch David attend on her mother, so tender was he; and he adopted a playful manner that always dispelled her pessimism and left her smiling and talkative. Ere he was aware, also, he made a place for himself In Cassandra's heart when he became interested in the case of her little brother, and attempted gradually to overcome his deformity.

  

Every morning when the child climbed to his eyrie and brought his supply of milk, David took him in and gently, out of his

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