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"Oh, but I don't mean that, at all," said Debby. "Why, didn't you ever hear about

the little travellers?"

Jane looked up, and a smile came over her face.

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Little travellers Zionward?' she said. "Oh, yes, to be sure. I know all about that. I mean, I know something."

"But what makes you stop and take back your words so?" said Debby. "A little while ago you said, 'I don't know-I think I don't know;' and now, again."

'I spoke too fast," said Jane. "I spoke as if I was sure; and I wasn't. And just now I said I knew all about the little travellers; but, oh, I know so little! I spoke too fast to speak quite true."

Then thought Debby to herself, "I think that's what mother meant by walking in the truth." "Well, what do you know about them, Jane?" she said aloud. 66 Because I know a good deal, and I can tell you."

"Do you?" said Jane, putting her hand in Debby's. "Then I wish you would tell me.

You know, Debby, the Bible says we ought to walk even as Jesus walked; and sometimes it seems to me as if I walked just the other way. Do you ever feel so? Now, if I loved Jesus as He loves me, I think my heart would run to Him all the time."

Debby was puzzled in her turn.

Here was

something about little travellers which went quite beyond her knowledge.

"Do you love Jesus?" she said, looking out from under her sun-bonnet.

"Oh, yes!" Jane answered: "we all do at home. We should be dreadfully poor if it wasn't for that."

"Would you?" said Debby, wondering.

"Oh, yes," said Jane: "we've got nothing else in the whole world."

"And you think He loves you?" said Debby. "Why, I'm sure He does," said Jane. "He wouldn't have done so much for me if he didn't. That's what mother said yesterday, when Tim Ryan said he didn't believe any such thing. Mother said, 'Just read the Bible, and you'll see it, Tim.''

"I think you 're a real little traveller, Jane," said Debby. But why Debby sighed as she said it, she herself did not know.

And now they had mounted the hill, and there, under the trees, was a long white tent, and under the tent the feast was spread. How beautiful the tables looked!-covered first with white cloths, and then with ever so many nice things.

Of course, as it was a strawberry feast, there were more strawberries than any thing else, some in dishes, and some in little baskets, and some in saucers, all ready to to be eaten. Then there were dishes of cherries, and plates of cake, and flowers everywhere in great abundance. There was cream, too, in a great pail over in one corner. So that Debby said it was almost as good as a fair, The teachers stood near the tables, and took care that all the children were well helped; and it was pretty to see the little things sitting about on the grass, eating their strawberries.

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