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God’s Country--And the Woman

CHAPTER TWELVE
19/22

Some are babies.

When a little one dies--if it is not too far away--she brings it to Le Jardin--her garden, so that it may not sleep alone under the lonely spruce, with the wolves howling over it on winter nights.

They must be lonely in the woodsy graves, she says.

I have known her to bring an Indian baby a hundred miles, and some of these I have seen die in her arms, while she crooned to them a song of Heaven.

And five times as many little ones she has saved, M'sieur.


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