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Pompey ! and the tears rained fast through her chubby 

 fingers, with which she tried to hide them from papa. &quot; 



&quot; I do not altogether sympathize with the theology that 

 takes it for granted that there is no hereafter for brutes,&quot; 

 said Mr. Slocum. 



&quot;I should like to think so,&quot; said Sally, &quot;now that old 

 Rose is dead, but I can not see what place there is for 

 animals in a spiritual world.&quot; 



&quot; I believe the Bible has not much to say on that point,&quot; 

 said Mrs. Bunker hopefully. 



&quot; Very true,&quot; said Mr. Slocum ; &quot; and it is worthy of 

 notice, that the most pointed thing it does say against 

 their immortality, Solomon puts into the mouth of an in 

 fidel arguing that man hath no preeminence above a 

 beast, for all is vanity. They fill their places so much 

 better than multitudes of men, and seem to answer the 

 Divine purpose in their creation so much better, that it 

 seems very sad to think there is no hereafter for them.&quot; 



&quot;It is almost as sad to think that some men can never 

 die,&quot; Sally replied very soberly. &quot; Still I think we shall 

 have to give up old Rose and all our dumb pets, when we 

 become like the angels. You remember, Josiah, that pas 

 sage in one of the Essays of a Country Parson where 

 the writer represents himself to be seated upon a manger, 

 writing upon the flat place between his horse s eyes, while 

 the docile animal s nose is between his knees. The book 

 is here upon mother s table, I will read it : 



* For you, my poor fellow creature, I think with sorrow 

 as I write here upon your head, there remains no such im 

 mortality, as remains for me. What a difference between 

 us ! You to your sixteen and eighteen years here, and 

 then oblivion ! I to my three score and ten, and then 

 eternity ! Yes, the difference is immense ; and it touches 

 me to think of your life and mine, of your doom and mine. 

 I know a house where at morning and evening prayer, 

 when the household assembles, among the servants there 



