"I shall next read Annie's letter." And she took another
little missive from the Bible, written with a pencil on the tablet paper
of the school, in wavering penmanship that showed the weakness of the
writer's hand. Cordelia read:
"_Dear Cordelia_: Annie Running Bird will leave this
Bible to Cordelia Running Bird, my sister, for I cannot
carry it to heaven, and in heaven I shall not need to read
the words that Jesus spoke on earth, for I shall hear him
speak up there. But Cordelia will not just yet be bearing
Jesus speak up there, and she will need to read this Bible
and must mind just what it tells her. Dear Cordelia,
you can have this Bible for your own when you are
fourteen birthdays, so you will be old enough to take
good care of it and read it very lots. But if you want
to borrow it before it is your own, the white mother will
please lend it to you, so you always give it back, and do
not lose the letters and the pieces of my hairs that will
be in it. I did not learn all of Helen's verses for the
King's Daughters' meeting, for I got too sick to study,
and my memory feels so queer. I have put a cross behind
the ones I learned, and, dear Cordelia, wilt you try to
learn them, too, and all the rest that Helen marked?
The one I tried to think of most is St.
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