method to work on the feelings of the living, and get them to pay
their money for something that wouldn't affect their dead a
particle."

"'Twould be a poor idea for me," said Mrs. Freshett. "I said to
the men that I wanted to honour Henry all I could, but with my
bulk, I'd hev all I could do, come Jedgment Day, to bust my box,
an' heave up the clods, without havin' to hist up a piece of iron
an' klim from under it."

Mother stiffened and Leon slipped again. He could have more
accidents than any boy I ever knew. But it was only a few
minutes until he came to mother and gave her a Bible to mark the
verses he had to learn to recite at Sunday-school next day.
Mother couldn't take the time when she had company, so she asked
if he weren't big enough to pick out ten proper verses and learn
them by himself, and he said of course he was. He took his Bible
and he and May and I sat on the back steps and studied our
verses. He and May were so big they had ten; but I had only two,
and mine were not very long. Leon giggled half the time he was
studying. I haven't found anything so very funny in the Bible.
Every few minutes he would whisper to himself: "THAT'S A GOOD
ONE!"

He took the book and heard May do hers until she had them
perfectly, then he went and sat on the back fence with his book
and studied as I never before had seen him. Mrs. Freshett stayed
so long mother had no time to hear him, but he told her he had
them all learned so he could repeat them without a mistake.