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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. HULDAH AND CHARLOTTE. T T I LA was late at breakfast the next morning. - -- Before she came down, she was the subject of conversation at the table. Dorothy opened it by saying: " I never in all my life see such a child; never. Why she's no more like other girls than black is like white. Now there's Emmy Price; before she was four years old, she made a shirt for her father, and now she's got two pieces of patch-work ready for quiltin'. Her mother was showin' 'em to me the other day. She is the blessedest child. She'll go straight to Heaven, sartain, one o' these days." " I'm afraid she is too good to live, judging from your accounts," said Mr. Dart, smiling. He was used to Dorothy's praise of her favorite. It was no uncommon topic with her. " Yes," replied she, taking the gentleman wholly in earnest. " You jest ought to hear her quote Scripter once. Two hundred and seventy-nine verses she knows by heart, and catechism aint nothin' to her. Why, she rattles off sanctification, justification, and all o' them, as ef 'twas ABC; and as to John Rogers, she knows every word that's in the primer." " She is certainly a remarkable child," said Mr. Dart. "Do you think she comprehends anything of the meaning of all these words she has learned by rote?" " Well," answered Dorothy, a little taken aback by this quiet question, " that's nothing, here nor there. It's a ' form of sound words' that I hold to. Plant the cardinal doctrines while they are young, and they'll spring up and grow in due time." " That is true, under the proper conditions," was the answer. Dorothy did not hear it; she went on: "But Hily; now it's impossible to plant anything in her mind. She's up and off before a body can get at her to say a word. Ef I try it, I have to let fly ove...