"I in the burying-place may see
Graves shorter there than I.
From Death's arrest no age is free,
Young children, too, may die.

"My God, may such an awful sight
Awakening be to me;
Oh, that by early grace, I might
For death prepared be!"

She was not a little proud of Bernal the day he recited this to
Grandfather Delcher without a break, though he began the second stanza
somewhat timidly, because it sounded so much like swearing.

Nor did she neglect to teach both boys the lessons of Holy Writ.

Of a Sabbath afternoon she would read how God ordered the congregation to
stone the son of Shelomith for blasphemy; or, perhaps, how David fetched
the Ark of the Covenant from Kirjath-jearim on a new cart; and of how the
Lord "made a breach" upon Uzza for wickedly putting his hand upon the Ark
to save it when the oxen stumbled. The little boys were much impressed by
this when they discovered, after questioning, exactly what it meant to
Uzza to have "a breach" made upon him. The unwisdom of touching an Ark of
the Covenant, under any circumstances, could not have been more clearly
brought home to them. They liked also to hear of the instruments played
upon before the Lord by those that went ahead of the Ark; harps,
psalteries, and timbrels; cornets, cymbals, and instruments made of
fir-wood.

Then there was David, who danced at the head of the procession "girded