Kate Morgan and her soldiers . ore, as again Sydneys friend encounteredJim. Let us go and comb the old heros hairfor him, said the friend, looking upon thesnowy fleece which covered the hill. Getyour sled, Jim, and Ill meet you at thebars. .I guess not, said Jim. ^ I havent gotany sled. What has become of it, Jim ? ^ Gone to Kansas. Nonsense. Where is it? I tell you its gone to Kansas. How? In that mans pocket that told about thestarving people out there in Kansas. Ichanged it into as sound a silver dollar asyou ever saw. How do you think I couldkeep Sydney Merwins sled, when he wasstarving, m
Kate Morgan and her soldiers . ore, as again Sydneys friend encounteredJim. Let us go and comb the old heros hairfor him, said the friend, looking upon thesnowy fleece which covered the hill. Getyour sled, Jim, and Ill meet you at thebars. .I guess not, said Jim. ^ I havent gotany sled. What has become of it, Jim ? ^ Gone to Kansas. Nonsense. Where is it? I tell you its gone to Kansas. How? In that mans pocket that told about thestarving people out there in Kansas. Ichanged it into as sound a silver dollar asyou ever saw. How do you think I couldkeep Sydney Merwins sled, when he wasstarving, maybe? I hant forgot how hungryI used to be after that very sled, once. 106 KATE morgans SOLDIERS. Jim ! Jim ! there is hope of you yet, saidSydneys friend, and we repeat it. Jims humanity has started into thatgrowth whose harvests are stored in eternity,whose reapers are angels. Jim, give us asmile for a pleasant good-bye. We will notforget you on the great prairie where yougrow. We will look for you, on the greatplain CHAPTER II. * We shall have breakfast this morning,Cousin Lizzie. How nice it seems to lie hereand imagine how it will look upon the never thought meal and potatoes could lookhalf so beautiful, said Katie Morgan, on firstawaking on the morning following Pauls ar-rival with the loaded wagons. Nor I, answered Lizzie. The next timeI see a hill of corn, or a row of potatoes grow-ing, I will say my prettiest pieces of poetryto them; and beside, Katie, I mean always totrust in God, for he has been good to us somany times. He is always good to me, simply an-swered Katie; ^ I cant help trusting inHim. But suppose, Katie, that Paul had beenlost, and the food had never come, woi^d you 108 KATE morgans SOLDIERS. have trusted in Him then, when we were allstarving? ^ Yes, Cousin Lizzie. How? That he would take us out of Kansas,where we were suffering, into Heaven, andfeed us there. Wouldnt that be dying, Katie ? I thinkit would be a dreadful thing to
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