I ca n't tell you how I feel about all your kindness . I 'm like the fellow the Story Girl wrote about who could n't get it out . I have the picture the Story Girl gave me for my sermon on the wall at the foot of my bed . I like to look at it , it looks so much like Aunt Jane . `` Felix , I 've given up praying that I 'd be the only one to eat the bitter apples , and I 'll never pray for anything like that again . It was a horrid mean prayer . I did n't know it then , but after the measles struck in I found out it was . Aunt Jane would n't have liked it . After this I 'm going to pray prayers I need n't be ashamed of . `` Sara Ray , I do n't know what it feels like to be going to die because I did n't know I was going to die till I got better . Mother says I was luny most of the time after they struck in . It was just because they struck in I was luny . I ai n't luny naturally , Felicity . I will do what you asked in your postscript , Sara , although it will be hard . `` I 'm glad Peg Bowen did n't catch you , Dan . Maybe she bewitched me that night we were at her place , and that is why the measles struck in . I 'm awful glad Mr. King is going to leave the potato stalks until I get well , and I 'm obliged to the Story Girl for coaxing him . I guess she will find out about Alice yet . There were some parts of her letter I could n't see through , but when the measles strike in , they leave you stupid for a spell . Anyhow , it was a fine letter , and they were all fine , and I 'm awful glad I have so many nice friends , even if I am only a hired boy .
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