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"I'm so glad—" she began, tears stood in her eyes,—"oh, so glad that—"

"There, there, dearie, I know you are. You don't need to tell me. Listen!" Then taking the younger woman's hand in hers she repeated, head tilted playfully to one side:

 

"Little Bopeep has lost her sheep,
And doesn't know where to find them.
Leave them alone, and they'll come home,
Bringing their tails behind them."

 

She paused. "I 'left them alone' all the Fall, 'and they've come home' now, Mrs. Jesse—all of my sheep. Even Myron," she added tenderly.