CHAPTER V.
A SAD FRIGHT.
But the next afternoon, as the two little girls were walking home together, Dotty said to Jennie, with a very wise face,-- "Grandma has told me what the Bible means.

Now I understand every single thing." Jennie did not seem as much delighted as had been expected.
"She says God can get that camel through a needle." "O, I remember," said Jennie; "you mean that Bible camel." "There isn't anything He can't do," continued Dotty; "the richest men, richer than your father, can get to heaven if God's a mind to take 'em." "Not bad people," said Jennie, shaking her head.
"I don't know about that; she didn't say," said Dotty, looking puzzled.
"O, no, I s'pose not.

God wouldn't be a mind to.

For don't you see, Jennie Vance, it's just _like_ a camel.

There can't anybody go through themselves unless God _pulls_ 'em through." I don't know what Grandma Parlin would have thought if she had heard her words chopped up in this way; but it made very little difference to Jennie, who paid no attention at all.
"You're father'll get there," added Dotty; "so I thought I'd tell you." "Your shoestring's untied," said Jennie, coolly.
"And I don't care now if you are the richest," said Dotty, stooping to tie the string; "for God loves me just as well when I wear Prudy's old things; and so do all the good people in this town, and the minister too; grandma said so.