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“Do you know how ice cream is made, May Nell?” Jimmy asked to break the oppression.,“Can you forgive me, Nell? This guiding star of Moses is our guiding star, too.” After a moment Howard continued, “I wish we could transplant this morning-glory into our garden, don’t you?”,Supper over and dishes hurried out of sight, the floor was once more cleared and the real business of the evening was resumed.,This threatened catastrophe had considerable weight with St. Elmo who, in spite of Betty’s discouraging words, still had a lurking hope that he too might be privileged to see the “faywies” some day. Although he was badly handicapped in being a boy, yet in some miraculous manner there might be an exception made in his favor.,“I got an orful cold, goin’ in an’ out so orften,” he complained.,“Is theh faywies wound heah, Betty? Can they see us?” inquired the little boy in awe-struck tones.,After several rounds the mouse, at last seeing the open door, darted through it to freedom. Jethro a short distance behind assayed to follow; but taking a short cut under the back seat on which huddled the Mifsud family he unexpectedly encountered his ancient enemy Snappy the Mifsud’s collie. Snappy, who had been roused from his slumbers under the buckboard by the commotion in the church, had crept in unnoticed and had been an interested spectator of the proceedings. Jethro’s always superabundant energies were now turned in a new direction. Snarls and snaps and the fiercest growls testified to the bitterness of the feud.,The inexorable portrait on the wall seemed to gaze down on the recalcitrant youth with disapproval.,Betty watching her, thought she had never seen “Mar” look so handsome and she thoroughly appreciated the cause.,However, the stove-pipe was at last cleaned and ready to put up. Moses’ moroseness had by now developed into a complaint, the chief symptoms of which were sniffling and coughing.,“Please did the lot hurt Joner when it fell?” queried a sober-minded seeker of truth.,Billy needed no hurrying. He dashed off along a well defined path, free from hindering branches. It hugged the brawling stream, crossed it more than once by way of stepping stones, and led on past the already shriveling azaleas. It must have been long used to be so clear..