The other night I took Jims with me for a walk down to the store . It was the first time he had ever been out so late at night , and when he saw the stars he exclaimed , ` Oh , Willa , see the big moon and all the little moons ! ' And last Wednesday morning , when he woke up , my little alarm clock had stopped because I had forgotten to wind it up . Jims bounded out of his crib and ran across to me , his face quite aghast above his little blue flannel pyjamas . ` The clock is dead , ' he gasped , ` oh Willa , the clock is dead . ' `` One night he was quite angry with both Susan and me because we would not give him something he wanted very much . When he said his prayers he plumped down wrathfully , and when he came to the petition ` Make me a good boy ' he tacked on emphatically , ` and please make Willa and Susan good , 'cause they 're not . ' `` I do n't go about quoting Jims 's speeches to all I meet . That always bores me when other people do it ! I just enshrine them in this old hotch-potch of a journal ! `` This very evening as I put Jims to bed he looked up and asked me gravely , ` Why ca n't yesterday come back , Willa ? ' `` Oh , why ca n't it , Jims ? That beautiful ` yesterday ' of dreams and laughter -- when our boys were home -- when Walter and I read and rambled and watched new moons and sunsets together in Rainbow Valley . If it could just come back ! But yesterdays never come back , little Jims -- and the todays are dark with clouds -- and we dare not think about the tomorrows . '' 11th December 1917 `` Wonderful news came today . The British troops captured Jerusalem yesterday . We ran up the flag and some of Gertrude 's old sparkle came back to her for a moment . '' ` After all , ' she said , ` it is worth while to live in the days which see the object of the Crusades attained . The ghosts of all the Crusaders must have crowded the walls of Jerusalem last night , with Coeur-de-lion at their head . '
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