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enough to buy the Bible. Mary
said she did not think of going
to her father to get the money.
“But how will you buy it,
then?” asked Mrs. Woodman.
Mary hesitated in answering
the question. She was not quite
sure that her mother would
like her plan. But she ventured
to say, at last, that she had been |
thinking of buying the Bible

with her quarter-eagle.