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human beings. This I do know, that 

 in my own soul, far more real than the 

 demonstrable propositions of life, such 

 as that two and two make four, is the 

 certain assurance that my soul and 

 Scraggles' will meet when my body and 

 soul are severed. 



So sleep, content and serene, dear 

 little Scraggles, in your tiny and flower- 

 embowered resting-place. You know 

 full well in your tiny, but love-filled 

 heart that just so soon as I have met all 

 the human loved ones in the soul-life, I 

 shall seek for you, and seek until I find, 

 for I shall want you even in heaven. 

 My heaven will be incomplete without 

 you. I believe absolutely with Brown- 

 ing, that 



" There shall be no lost good, 

 What was, shall live as before ! " 



