She hain't any bizzens orderin' us around nuther, and I will hate her!" "But, Muggins, the Bible teaches us to love those who treat us badly, who are mean, as you say." "Who's he ?" and Muggins looked up quickly.

"I never hearn tell of him afore, or, yes I has.

Thar's an old wared-out book in Mas'r Hugh's chest, what he reads in every night, and oncet when I axes him what was it, he say, 'It's a Bible, Mug.' Dat's what he calls me for short; Mug!" "Well," Alice said, "be a good girl, Muggins.

God will love you if you do.

Do you ever pray ?" "More times I do, and more times when I'se sleepy I don't," was Muggins' reply.
Here was a spot where Alice might do good; this half-heathen, but sprightly, African child needed her, and she began already to get an inkling of her mission to Kentucky.