She asked me if I knew any . I told her I did n't , but I could recite , ` The Dog at His Master 's Grave ' if she liked . That 's in the Third Royal Reader . It is n't a really truly religious piece of poetry , but it 's so sad and melancholy that it might as well be . She said it would n't do and she told me to learn the nineteenth paraphrase for next Sunday . I read it over in church afterwards and it 's splendid . There are two lines in particular that just thrill me . '' ` Quick as the slaughtered squadrons fell In Midian 's evil day . ' `` I do n't know what ` squadrons ' means nor ` Midian , ' either , but it sounds SO tragical . I can hardly wait until next Sunday to recite it . I 'll practice it all the week . After Sunday school I asked Miss Rogerson -- because Mrs. Lynde was too far away -- to show me your pew . I sat just as still as I could and the text was Revelations , third chapter , second and third verses . It was a very long text . If I was a minister I 'd pick the short , snappy ones . The sermon was awfully long , too . I suppose the minister had to match it to the text . I did n't think he was a bit interesting . The trouble with him seems to be that he has n't enough imagination . I did n't listen to him very much .
I just let my thoughts run and I thought XXXXX the most surprising things . ''
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