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did not seem to me as if I were doing it myself, but as if some
unseen Power had taken possession of me for a moment, and made me
do it. And I suppose that when we act from a sudden impulse to
help another out of trouble, it never is ourself that does the
good deed. The Highest Strength just takes us and uses us. I
certainly felt equal to going straight through the earth to China
after my little sister, if she had stink out of sight.
We were two miserable looking children when we reached home, the
sticky ooze having changed her feet into unmanageable lumps of
mud, with which my own clothes also were soiled. I had to drag or
carry her all the way, for she could not or would not walk a
step. And alas for the morocco boots! They were never again red.
I also received a scolding for not taking better care of my
little sister, and I was not very soon allowed again to have her
company in my rambles.
We usually joined with other little neighbor girls in some out-
of-door amusement near home.
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