Poor ! They lived on potatoes and point , believe ME . They had two children -- Leslie and Kenneth . Leslie had her mother 's looks and her father 's brains , and something she did n't get from either of them . She took after her Grandmother West -- a splendid old lady . She was the brightest , friendliest , merriest thing when she was a child , Anne . Everybody liked her . She was her father 's favorite and she was awful fond of him . They were ` chums , ' as she used to say . She could n't see any of his faults -- and he WAS a taking sort of man in some ways . `` Well , when Leslie was twelve years old , the first dreadful thing happened . She worshipped little Kenneth -- he was four years younger than her , and he WAS a dear little chap . And he was killed one day -- fell off a big load of hay just as it was going into the barn , and the wheel went right over his little body and crushed the life out of it . And mind you , Anne , Leslie saw it . She was looking down from the loft . She gave one screech -- the hired man said he never heard such a sound in all his life -- he said it would ring in his ears till Gabriel 's trump drove it out . But she never screeched or cried again about it . She jumped from the loft onto the load and from the load to the floor , and caught up the little bleeding , warm , dead body , Anne -- they had to tear it from her before she would let it go . They sent for me -- I ca n't talk of it . '' Miss Cornelia wiped the tears from her kindly brown eyes and sewed in bitter silence for a few minutes .
`` Well , '' she resumed , `` it was all over -- they buried little Kenneth in that graveyard over the harbor , and after a while XXXXX went back to her school and her studies .
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