Mr. Guion said she was active and labored well except when she had the fits she is subject to. When I had got through exhibiting the presents, I said: "Betty, Mr. Guion will take care of your presents;" but Mr. Guion said: "No, I would prefer she should take them herself. Betty is very capable of taking care of her own things." She then put the box under her arm and went away with it. She said a great many times how she
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should like to see the children and James' wife, but above all James himself, and re= peated a great many times these words: "I thank you all a thousand times - Tell them all I thank them a thousand times!" I observed a great many inquisitive looks from the females at work about the house, and have no doubt it furnished the the County House with gossip for at least a week. A Visit to Betty, one of the poorest and most neglected of the inmates! It will be considered wondrous - and then the presents and the letter from the five Flushing children who never saw her! How wonderful! I think I can hear at this moment what they said. A Yankee woman spoke out: "Well now, Dolly Dolan, isn't it *a tarnal* extra -onary thing that them children at Flushing should have sent that box full
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