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"She is getting a lot stronger already. She can sit
up longer and help herself better, and she's got ribbons, the prettiest
you ever laid eyes on, that a lady gave me for her hair, and they make her
pink and nicer; and she's got a baby doll in long clean white dresses to
snuggle down and stay with her all day; and she's got a slate, and a book,
and she knows 'cow' and 'milk' and my name, and to-day she is learning
'bread.' To-morrow I am going to teach her 'baby,' and she can say her
prayer too nice for anything, once we got it fixed so she'd say it at
all."
"What did you teach her, Mickey?"
"'Now I lay me,' only Lily wouldn't say it the way She taught me. You see
Lily was all alone with her granny when she winked out and it scared her
most stiff, so when I got to that 'If I should die before I wake,' line,
she just went into fits, and remembering what I'd seen myself, I didn't
blame her; so I changed it for her 'til she liked it."
"Tell me about it, Mickey?" said the nurse.
"Well you see she has a window, so she can see the stars and the sun.


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