strength of the farm was turned out to follow
her, with wraps, and blankets, and brandy, and every thing that could be
thought of. I lay in chilly sleep, but still alive, beneath the rock
that Lassie guided them to. I was covered over with my brother's plaid,
and his thick shepherd's coat was carefully wrapped round my feet. He
was in his shirt-sleeves--his arm thrown over me--a quiet smile (he had
hardly ever smiled in life) upon his still, cold face.

My father's last words were, "God forgive me my hardness of heart towards
the fatherless child!"

And what marked the depth of his feeling of repentance, perhaps more than
all, considering the passionate love he bore my mother, was this: we
found a paper of directions after his death, in which he desired that he
might lie at the foot of the grave, in which, by his desire, poor Gregory
had been laid with OUR MOTHER.

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