Besides myself there was another of the party to whom a dying friend had promised to return, if possible, but had not come.
"Whittier believed that they did sometimes come.

He said that of all whom he had lost, no one would be so welcome to him as Lydia Maria Child.
"We held a little service in the parlor of the hotel, and Mrs.C.read the fourteenth chapter of John.

Rev.Mr.W.read a sermon from 'The pure in heart shall see God," written by Parkhurst, of New York.

He thought the child should be told that in heaven he should have his hobby-horse.
After the service, when we talked it over, I objected to telling the child this.

Whittier did not object; he said that Luther told his little boy that he should have a little dog with a golden tail in heaven.
"Aug.