`` Look how Aunt Olivia 's hens laid , too , and she fed them herself just the same as usual . '' `` Never mind , '' said Cecily , `` we have all got something to give . If you were like poor Sara Ray , and had n't been able to collect anything , you might feel bad . '' But Sara Ray HAD something to give . She came up the hill after tea , all radiant . When Sara Ray smiled -- and she did not waste her smiles -- she was rather pretty in a plaintive , apologetic way . A dimple or two came into sight , and she had very nice teeth -- small and white , like the traditional row of pearls . `` 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 XXXXX me . ''
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