'She took to readin' almost as soon as to walkin',' he continued, 'and used to read aloud to us.

I s'pose I soon dozed off, but her mother took it all in, and durin' the long winter evenin's they kinder roamed all over the world together.

I suspicion Tilly had more books than was good for her, but she was our only child, and I couldn't say no to her.

She edicated herself to be a teacher, and stood high, and we was proud of her, sure enough, but I'm afeared all that study and readin' wasn't good for her;' and then came another of his deep sighs.
"Madge's great eyes meanwhile were more and more full of trouble, and there was a deal of pathos suggested by the man's simple story.
Indeed, I felt my own throat swelling at the poor man's last sigh, it was so deep and natural, and seemed to express a great sorrow, for which there were no words in his homely vernacular." "What selfish egotists we are over our picayune vexations!" Graydon muttered.
"Well, the mother and the doctor now appeared.

The latter looked grave; and when he looks grave things are serious indeed.
"'Ain't she no better ?' the father asked, with entreaty in his tone.
"'I wish she was,' said the doctor, in his blunt way, which nevertheless expressed more sympathy than a lot of fine phrases.