variety of needlework her fingers were deft 

 and the specimens that came from her hands 

 were rare and beautiful. She enjoyed her 

 art by using these talents largely for others. 

 There comes no remembrance that she ever 

 worked for self, although her activity was in- 

 defatigable. Rather was hers a nature that 

 gave from its fullness. 



Even in those early years her distinguish- 

 ing trait was the love she gave little children. 

 She was their friend and they knew it. She 

 was especially beloved by the children in her 

 own kinship, but not only upon these children 

 was her affection lavished, but it was freely 

 given to those in other households with whom 

 she came in contact. May it not have been 

 the Divine in her nature; the answer from her 

 soul to the Master's ''Suffer little children to 

 come unto Me," which in the last year of 

 earthly life pleased her Heavenly Father to 

 place a motherless little one in those tender 

 arms. 



In her last letter was revived her loving 

 recollection of the pets which shared our 

 heartsome young life. 



A very precious friend of this girlhood was 

 Moses, Luola's beautiful pony, and with the 

 pony a basket phaeton came, both gifts from 

 her father. The phaeton was just large 

 enough for two, and there could hardly have 

 been a part of Brooklyn that did not welcome 

 the sight of Moses and the two girls in the 

 phaeton, for — 



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