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 She looked ever so much happier after boys go away with their arms around
that, and built great high steeples, and each other's shoulders. Jeddy said Ruth
long trains of cars for the baby; and I was a little goose, but she only laughed,
knocked them over, and purred as loud and shook a little round drop out of
as I could, while Ruthie laughed and the her eye, a great deal brighter than the
baby crowed and said pitty, pitty." glass marble; and we went up stairs and
 Then we heard a noise out in the looked in the red Bible again. This
street, and Ruth went to the window. was what it said, "Blessedare the peace-
It was two big boys, quarreling. She makers; for they shall be called the chil-
asked them to come to the door a min- dren of God."
ute; and she and the baby and I all I wish you could have seen Ruth's face
went down stairs. One of the boys said then; it was so full of sunshine. And
the other had got one of his marbles and after the baby was tired of building block
wouldn't give it back, and the other said houses, she put his little hands together
he had lost it and couldn't, and then they -I zvas sorry I scratched them, then-
both began to say bad words again; and and taught him to say, Our Father,
Ruth told them if they would make up which art in Heaven."
all pleasant, she would give them a mar- I think it is very nice to be a little
ble. I wondered if she meant the cun- gray and yellow kitty, with a blue ribbon,
ning little glass one Cousin Ned gave and such a soft lounge to sleep on. But
her, with the blue and red and yellow I think it must be a great deal nicer to
stripes. Well, she did; but she looked be a little boy or girl, with a dear little
sorry when she took it out of her pocket. Bible to tell them what a dear, kind
I was sorry, too. It was so nice to roll, Father there is up in Heaven, who loves
and Ruthie and I played with it so much. them, and will help them not to be
 She tried to get Jeddy to give the boy naughty.
one of his old brown marbles, but he I should think they would rather be
wouldn't; and she just handed out the his little children, than to have all the
pretty striped one, and we watched the marbles in the world.
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