I liked to of ben there if the bears wold of known that I was a good child.

mabe I cold of ben on a high fense or up a tree.

I climd the sor aple tree in our back yard esy.
"By Bernal Linford, aged neerly 8 yrs." Carefully he put back both papers with the mother's letter, his dark face showing all its intricate net-work of lines in a tension that was both pained and humorous.
Two fresh souls were given to his care to be made, please God, the means of grace by which thousands of other souls might be washed clean of the stain of original sin.

Yet, if revolt was there--revolt like his daughter's and like his own?
Would he forgive as his own father had forgiven, who had called him back after many years to live out a tranquil old age on the fortune that father's father had founded?
He mused long on this.

The age was lax--true, but God's law was never lax.