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What Might Have Been Expected

CHAPTER XXXIII
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But I don't 'spects I'll find nobody in heben that'll be more reel comfort to me dan you chillen." "Oh Aunt Matilda!" cried Kate.

"Why, you'll meet all your friends and relations that you talk so much about and who died so long ago." "Well," said Aunt Matilda, very deliberately, "perhaps I shall, and perhaps I sha'n't; dere's no tellin'.

But dere ain't no mistakin' 'bout you chillen." That afternoon, when Uncle Braddock called, Aunt Matilda said to him: "Ef you see Ole Miles ye kin tell him he needn't bring me no answer to dat letter." Very early one morning, a few days after this, Kate went over to Aunt Matilda's cabin.
She saw Aunt Judy standing at the door.
"How's Aunt Matilda ?" asked Kate.
"Gone to glory," said Aunt Judy.
Aunt Matilda was buried under a birch-tree near the church that she used to attend when able to walk.
That portion of her "fund" which remained unexpended at the time of her death was used to pay her funeral expenses and to erect a suitable tombstone over her grave.

On the stone was an inscription.

Harry composed it, and Kate copied it carefully for the stonecutter.
And thus, after much hard labor and anxious thought, after many disappointments and a great deal of discouragement, Harry and Kate performed to the end the generous task they had set themselves, which was just what might have been expected of such a boy and such a girl.
THE END.
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