The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 15 Page 19

” Then he explained carefully to the child what he really meant, showing him some of the strange and beautiful ways of nature, and at last allowing him to look into the microscope to see the little cells and rays. As he patiently and kindly taught, he was pleased with the child’s eager, receptive mind and na�ve admiration. Towards evening Hoyle was sent home, quite at rest concerning devils and all their kin, and radiantly happy with a box of many colored pencils and a blank drawing-book, which David had brought him from Farington.

“I kin larn to make things like you b’en makin’ with these, an’ Cass, she’ll he’p me,” he cried.

“What is Cass doing to-day?” David ventured.

“She be’n up here most all mornin’,