human
How much your auntie knows about animals and birds! said Florence;
gpt
Yes, Susie answered;
human
Is it the pain that keeps her awake at night, Susie? You know she said this afternoon she was glad to hear the chippy-birds, because then she knew the long night was over; and she looked so white, and couldn't get down those three little easy steps to pick up the baby-bird. But she walks about the garden sometimes with a crutch, doesn't she?
gpt
Oh, yes! and she's better than when she first came here to live, only she never can be well, you know. Today is one of her poor days; but she used to be so ill that she was hardly ever free from pain. You never would have known it, though, she was always so cheerful and doing something to give us good times.
human
Can't she ever be made well, Susie? There's doctors in town, you know, who cure _every thing_,
gpt
Papa says she has an incurable disease; and then seriously--
human
I think if Jesus were here he would put his hands on auntie and make her well.
gpt
And now for the story of the minister's horse, Mollie Elliot said, when Miss Ruth's company of workers had assembled on the next Wednesday afternoon.
human
I suppose he was an awfully good horse, which set an example to all the other horses in the parish to follow. Say, Auntie, wasn't he?