New world heroes : Presidents Lincoln and Garfield . «45^ • v.\ -V *** ..*. James a. Garfield. A FOREST FUNERAL. 153 nearer ; but Abram was quicker than the flames, and beforethey reached our farm he had finished his work. That was a good thing. Oh, I dont know, said the woman through her tears. Perhaps it would have been better if we had all perishedtogether. But here little James put his hand up to his mothersface, and the childish touch at the same time rebuked andcomforted her. It was too much for hira, she said presently. Hegot very warm and tired, and then he sat down to
New world heroes : Presidents Lincoln and Garfield . «45^ • v.\ -V *** ..*. James a. Garfield. A FOREST FUNERAL. 153 nearer ; but Abram was quicker than the flames, and beforethey reached our farm he had finished his work. That was a good thing. Oh, I dont know, said the woman through her tears. Perhaps it would have been better if we had all perishedtogether. But here little James put his hand up to his mothersface, and the childish touch at the same time rebuked andcomforted her. It was too much for hira, she said presently. Hegot very warm and tired, and then he sat down to the sun was hot, there was a cold wind, and Isuppose he took a chilL He could not sleep when he gotto bed; his limbs ached, and he was very feverish, andtowards morning his throat got very sore. If there hadbeen a doctor he might have been saved. We did what wecould, and he was not long ill. He sat here, with his headleaning on the bed, and he looked out on his little farm,and in on his four children. * Eliza, he said, I have plantedfour saplings; you will have to see that
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