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came and handed her a letter.
She broke the seal as soon as
she could, and there she read
that her dear husband had been
drowned. She wept a long
time. Little Sarah and Emily,
her two children, came to her,
and asked her what made her
weep so, and she said to them,
“My precious babes, your dear

father is dead.”
Her husband was not rich;

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