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Brittany Jean and Suzettie No 'morning, both the attendance-of passed without at in Mass, and both joined fervently :
a
village lived.
them of all ,as soon as they learnt to His Name' or join lisp littlebands in prayer, which their their good parents taught them to do at a
One after another early age. very faded away, until the poor cduple be gan to look upon each babe as it came one soon as destined to leave" them ; to kind old Cure told become as their an intercessor for them in them, Heaven.; And with this thought they to tried reconcile themselves to the 1 it back to the Good God idea of giving had lent to who it them. '
Send
great joy was heard, and prayer blessed with a little girl showing the same delicacy their
petition
part they were
who; as
infants, gave; hope that the latter part of would also be granted.
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Co.,
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was indeed something an the little so that her child, often trembled father and mother lest she also might leave them for heaven,' for which fit. place alone she seemed never She was so happy as when, at with one or church both of her par and before she could ents, speak she would, of her own accord, plainly kneel before the little wooden crucifix or image of Our Lady which hung in the cottage, and lisp one of the little her mother had taught her. prayers was Then she not happy when, al of the convent lowed by the nuns she walked in procession with school, on some the other children feast day, and helped to carry a tiny banner ? \
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however, they a often wondered if fresh occupant fill wouldever the vacant cradle which still stood in the corner of the room, and both Suzette and her husband God's will He prayed that if it were entrust to would another child them,, who would grow up and comfort them in their old age.
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how imagined af all grieved was the change in her "husband this; her. He had to incomprehensible so been in every way and exemplary, not he grown irreli now, had only' to her but he was often unkind gious, to his child. and indifferent now The little six years old, girl, was the only, comfort the poor woman time had ; and when she could spare take her to the from home she would and kneeling before the altar, church, of her would for the conversion pray husband. Little Marie would also say some to our dear Lord, little prayer in who, as her mother told her, lived and was the same In the tabernacle, fant Jesus, whom they had worship ped as a Babe at Christmas. of The and the anxiety grief wife broken-hearted began at last 'to a act her health, and enfeeble, upon been constitution which had never was to all until it but apparent strong, her husband that she was slowly fad It
deeply
had
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away, up his
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it,;
together.
Communion and floly every bunday. God had" blessed them with holiday. to several but had seen fit children,
deprive v
called
they
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Catholic
.
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short-lived;
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THE
WOOD,
A.
WALTER
that
happened
he had village tance men of t,wo ing
.
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STORY
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Suzette's
illness he would tell came the hot weather wheja be better, she would and that it was the early merely spring days, still cold at times, that were very, trying
gard
to
her
that
'her.
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