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We must be getting her educated, I suppose." "Why ?" Brother Bonaday, seated with palms crossed over the head of his staff, gazed in an absent-minded way at the water-weeds trailing in the current.
"She's an odd child; curiously shrewd in some ways and curiously innocent in others, and for ever asking questions.

She put me a teaser yesterday.

She can read pretty well, and I set her to read a chapter of the Bible.

By and by she looked up and wanted to know why God lived apart from His wife!" Brother Copas grunted his amusement.
"Did you tell her ?" "I invented some answer, of course.