`` Oh , just look , '' she said . `` Here are three dollars -- and I 'm going to give it all to the library fund . I had a letter to-day from Uncle Arthur in Winnipeg , and he sent me three dollars . He said I was to use it ANY way I liked , so ma could n't refuse to let me give it to the fund . She thinks it 's an awful waste , but she always goes by what Uncle Arthur says . Oh , I 've prayed so hard that some money might come some way , and now it has . See what praying does ! '' I was very much afraid that we did not rejoice quite as unselfishly in Sara 's good fortune as we should have done . WE had earned our contributions by the sweat of our brow , or by the scarcely less disagreeable method of `` begging . '' And Sara 's had as good as descended upon her out of the skies , as much like a miracle as anything you could imagine . `` She prayed for it , you know , '' said Felix , after Sara had gone home . `` That 's too easy a way of earning money , '' grumbled Peter resentfully . `` If the rest of us had just set down and done nothing , only prayed , how much do you s ` pose we 'd have ? It do n't seem fair to me . '' `` Oh , well , it 's different with Sara , '' said Dan . `` We COULD earn money and she COULD N'T . You see ? But come on down to the orchard . The Story Girl had a letter from her father to-day and she 's going to read it to us . '' We went promptly .
A letter from the Story Girl 's father was always an event ; and XXXXX hear her read it was almost as good as hearing her tell a story .
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