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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. lo Ilu fills, They slept in Whitey's house that night. A stranger might have said, just glancing at it, Good as Pilcher's cabin any day, though the cabin had a window and a chimney, and the barn had none. But Oh, that cabin, humble though it looked, had many a precious comfort within its four.walls. There, as year by year went on, improvements had been made according to need and opportunity. Hannah had her cradle, and the boys had their bed; and there were two tables in the kitchen, and benches and a corner-cupboard, and shelves against the wall, and hooks in the rafters from which hung, I might say, every thing; onlyyou could name a great, great many things which you would deem essential to the comfort of the household, and I should then be obliged to say, No, nothing of that sort hung from the rafters of Caleb Pilcher's house. Yet they had lived in great comfort in the cabin; and when they slept in Whitey's house, it seemed indeed to them that it was Whitey's and not theirs. The boys had cut boughs of trees and spread them on the floor, and they talked about their beds as if they anticipated such a sleep upon them as lads never had before. In the midst of their talk and sport their father said, Abel, bring the Bible. 'Abel sprang to hjs feet. How many times he had brought the sacred book when the hour for family worship had arrived; but now he stood still and looked at his mother. She shook her head.Then the lad sat down again on the pile of hemlock boughs, and hid his face in his hands. What a silence that was to break. The mother of the children was the one to break it?not by saying, That's lost too. Let not your hearts be troubled, she said, and you know whose gracious and assuring words they were she now repeated. Let not your hearts...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217627450 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217627455 |
| Weight | 0.32 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 90 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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