The heathen live in warm countries so they do n't want hoods . `` I 'm glad you are still praying for me , Cecily , for you ca n't trust the measles . And I 'm glad you 're keeping you know what for me . I do n't believe anything will happen to you if you do take the measles ; but if anything does I 'd like that little red book of yours , The Safe Compass , just to remember you by . It 's such a good book to read on Sundays . It is interesting and religious , too . So is the Bible . I had n't quite finished the Bible before I took the measles , but ma is reading the last chapters to me . There 's an awful lot in that book . I ca n't understand the whole of it , since I 'm only a hired boy , but some parts are real easy . `` I 'm awful glad you have such a good opinion of me . I do n't deserve it , but after this I 'll try to . 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 XXXXX .
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