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with them, and prayed with
them.

Oh! how much those chil-
dren loved their mother! They
thought they could not live
without her; and when once
she reminded them that she
might die, little James threw
his arms around her neck, and
cried, and said he hoped if his
dear mother died, that he and
sister Emily might die too, and