And never saw a flower nor a tree! O, dear!" While she was musing in this way, and gazing about her with eager eyes which saw everything, the children were reading aloud from their odd-looking books.

It was strange to see their small fingers fly so rapidly over the pages.

Horace said it was "a touching sight." "I wonder," went on Dotty to herself, "if they should tease God very hard, would he let their eyes come again?
No, I s'pose not." Then she reflected further that perhaps they were glad to be blind; she hoped so.

The teacher now called out a class in geography, and began to ask questions.
"What can you tell me about the inhabitants of Utah ?" said she.
"I know," spoke up a little boy with black hair, and eyes which would have been bright if the lids had not shut them out of sight,--"I know; Utah is inhabited by a religious INSECT called Mormons." The superintendent and visitors knew that he meant _sect_ and they laughed at the mistake; all but Dotty and Flyaway, who did not consider it funny at all.

Flyaway was seated in a chair, busily engaged in picking dirt out of the heels of her boots with a pin.
Horace was much interested in the atlases and globes, upon the surface of which the land rose up higher than the water, and the deserts were powdered with sand.