Two children of the foothills . , asshe took her arm from around him, Go overto the corner of the porch and sit down andshut your eyes and listen until you hear thestill, small voice within you telling you whatto say to me. The boy turned and slowlywalked over to the corner of the porch and satdown with his back to us. We were all face was stern and full of pain. It THE COO-COO SONG. 58 was Georgies first lie to her. The strainlasted but a few minutes. Georgie soon rose,turned and came towards us. As he nearedMargaret he said in a low tone of voice, Iate the custard, Miss Marg
Two children of the foothills . , asshe took her arm from around him, Go overto the corner of the porch and sit down andshut your eyes and listen until you hear thestill, small voice within you telling you whatto say to me. The boy turned and slowlywalked over to the corner of the porch and satdown with his back to us. We were all face was stern and full of pain. It THE COO-COO SONG. 58 was Georgies first lie to her. The strainlasted but a few minutes. Georgie soon rose,turned and came towards us. As he nearedMargaret he said in a low tone of voice, Iate the custard, Miss Marget. The sternlook vanished and in its place came a radiantsmile as she with motherly tenderness gatheredhim in her arms and said in the hushed, rever-ent tone peculiar to her, Georgie, did youknow it was God speaking to you when youheard the still, small voice? You and I canhear God speak just as well as Elijah she rose and taking Georgies hand,walked off with him as if even my presencewere an intrusion at such a Chapter IV. PLAT WITH THE LIMBS. One of our experiences, arising from the factthat we were in a region which was rainless forsix months of the year, was that the breakingof a water pipe farther up the mountain leftus for several days without water, and wewere compelled to go each morning and eve-ning to a spring on a neighboring ranch. Thechildren, as a matter of course, accompainedus on these expeditions and were given smalltin pails in which to bring back their part ofour needed supply. As the spring was lowerdown the mountain side than our cabin, theclimb up the hill with the heavy buckets wassometimes fatiguing and we would have to restby the wayside. Frequently Georgie wouldset his pail down upon a rock and emphaticallyannounce that he was not going to carry it anyfarther. Realizing that he had had little orno training in the higher form of love whichshows itself through service, after resting ashort time, Margaret usually stimulated him bysome pla
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