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land, said May, wondering what
could make him talk so.

‘They were once, and good men,
too; me heard granddaddy read
about it,’ answered the little man.

‘What! did you hear ? exclaimed
May. ‘I thought you were making
a house.’

_*Me-did hear; me olten hear
when me playing; and mammy said
they serve good Lord Jesus just the
same—least, they kill Him. What
did the bad men do it for, May May?”

‘ Because He was good,’ answered
the little girl, wondering all the
while at her Johnny-boy. ‘He let
them, though, or else they couldn’t
have done it, because He was God,’