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stretched out on the grass in the sun, sound asleep. I went up to our room, and

judged I would take a nap myself. I found that sweet Miss Sophia standing in

her door, which was next to ours, and she took me in her room and shut the

door very soft, and asked me if I liked her, and I said I did; and she asked me

if I would do something for her and not tell anybody, and I said I would. Then

she said she'd forgot her Testament, and left it in the seat at church, between

two other books and would I slip out quiet and go there and fetch it to her,

and not say nothing to nobody. I said I would. So I slid out and slipped off

up the road, and there warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or

the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor ssssssssss

two, for there warn't any lock on ssssssssss

in summer-time because it's cool. ssssssssss

If you notice, most folks don't go to ssssssssss

church only when they've got to; ssssssssss

but a hog is different. ssssssssss

Says I to myself something's up

-- it ain't natural for a girl to be ssssssssss

in such a sweat about a Testament; ssssssssss

so I give it a shake, and out drops a ssssssssss

little piece of paper with "Half-past ssssssssss

two" wrote on it with a pencil. I ssssssssss

ransacked it, but couldn't find any- ssssssssss

thing else. I couldn't make any- ssssssssss

thing out of that, so I put the paper ssssssssss

in the book again, and when I got ssssssssss

home and up stairs, there was Miss ssssssssss

Sophia in her door waiting for me. ssssssssss

She pulled me in and shut the door; ssssssssss

then she looked in the Testament ssssssssss

till she found the paper, and as soon ssssssssss

as she read it she looked glad; ssssssssss

and before a body could think, she grabbed me and give me a squeeze, and said I

was the best boy in the world, and not to tell anybody. She was mighty red in

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