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The Mountain Girl
The Mountain Girl

  

"Oh, no, no. Here, I'll show you what I mean." Then he explained carefully to the child what he really meant, showing him some of the strange and beautiful ways of nature, and at last allowing him to look into the microscope to see the little cells and rays. As he patiently and kindly taught, he was pleased with the child's eager, receptive mind and naïve admiration. Towards evening Hoyle was sent home, quite at rest concerning devils and all their kin, and radiantly happy with a box of many colored pencils and a blank drawing-book, which David had brought him from Farington.

  

"I kin larn to make things like you b'en makin' with these, an' Cass, she'll he'p me," he cried.

  

"What is Cass doing to-day?" David ventured.

  

"She be'n up here most all mornin', an' I he'ped get the light ud fer fire, an' then she sont me home to he'p maw whilst she stayed to fix up."

  

"But now, I mean, when you came up here?"

  

"Weavin' in the loom shed. Maw, she has a lot o' little biddies. The ol' hen hatched 'em, she did."

  

"What have you done to your thumb?" asked David, seeing it tied about with a rag.

  

"I plunked hit with the hammer when I war a-makin' houses fer

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