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" Deliver all with charity. ^^ 



I WONDER whether I have not been making 

 myself a little unpleasant about our flowers 

 and their seeds. Possibly I have been 

 thinking only of the woman who has saved a 

 trifle out of the market-money to buy her few 

 seeds, and for her self-denial has received little or 

 maybe nothing. 



The story is told of an American Bishop who 

 had been staying at an English country house, 

 and left one morning in company with a young 

 gentleman who had also been a visitor at the 

 same place. When they alighted at the station, 

 the Bishop hurried to the train, while his com- 

 panion searched in vain for his gun, which it 

 appeared had been left behind. He abused the 

 servant roundly, using language fitted only for 

 the ceremony of excommunication, and at the 

 last moment leaped on board the train to find 

 himself face to face with the Bishop. He colored 



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