family Bible.

In this cheerful room were twenty or thirty boys and girls. They looked
very much like other children, only they did not appear to notice that
any one was entering, and scarcely turned their heads as the door
softly opened.

Dotty had a great many new thoughts. These unfortunate little ones were
very neatly dressed, yet they had never seen themselves in the glass; and
how did they know whether their hair was rough or smooth, or parted in
the middle? How could they tell when they dropped grease-spots on those
nice clothes?

"I don't see," thought Dotty, "how they know when to go to bed! O, dear!
I should get up in the night and think 'twas morning; only I should
s'pose 'twas night all the whole time, and not any stars either! When my
father spoke to me, I should think it was my mother, and say, 'Yes'm.'
And p'rhaps I should think Prudy was a beggar-man with a wig on. And
never saw a flower nor a tree! O, dear!"

While she was musing in this way, and gazing about her with eager eyes
which saw everything, the children were reading aloud from their
odd-looking books. It was strange to see their small fingers fly so
rapidly over the pages. Horace said it was "a touching sight."

"I wonder," went on Dotty to herself, "if they should tease God very
hard, would he let their eyes come again? No, I s'pose not."

Then she reflected further that perhaps they were glad to be blind; she
hoped so. The teacher now called out a class in geography, and began to