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ry!glory!" he continued, with fluent vacuity and wandering, dull,observant eyes.

"But if I had a little more practice in class, Brother Silas, moreeducation?"

"The letter killeth," interrupted Brother Silas. Here hiswandering eyes took dull cognizance of two female faces peeringthrough the opening of the tent. "No, yer mishun, Brother Gideon,is to seek Him in the by-ways, in the wilderness,--where the foxeshev holes and the ravens hev their young,--but not in the Templesof the people. Wot sez Sister Parsons?"

One of the female faces detached itself from the tent flaps, whichit nearly resembled in color, and brought forward an angular figureclothed in faded fustian that had taken the various shades andodors of household service.

"Brother Silas speaks well," said Sister Parsons, with stridulousfluency. "It's fore-ordained. Fore-ordinashun is better norordinashun, saith the Lord. He shall go forth, turnin' neither tothe right hand nor the left hand, and seek Him among the losttri