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Show hanging on the wall, was a large bunch of gold .'and silver paper m&neyf ready to burn as soon as the girl died, to provide money W& the soul on i t s journey to the far spirit -world*. i i %e patient herself, a girl of seventeen, was sitting on the brick bed, being held. up- by her mother who orouched- weeding behind har. The girl wns too weak to hold up her head • "*L&t her lie g£«g J I p*|o> M Arrange the bedding so "• "But % objected the mother > , n if you lot her lie do*n she ill! die* * We suited her foar? t and saw that the pstient was r;acle as comfortable as possible ,.in a half- reclining position* &a -we loosened feer. clothes* to examine her cheat, I noted, that her purple garment sa-j not fastened srlth Vuttons , but with strips of coarse cloth, sewed on like tapes, and tied*. I noticed too, that the garment taa of bettor quality than - the family couli -iffordf ana I kne--v thvt she yes wearing her gr^ve-clothe? j -nl r ^ already irs • s-d for hor burial* i Why no buttons T They balieve 'that if "buttons should be buried with the dead. , the family could never; hope for sons to perpetuate ^ the family new . The gjrj f^hiia very ill , was not at death's loorn I assured fhoa that we had good reason, to hope for har recovery, and we -«ouid. ask the Heavenly 3?* the r , vho alone governs life and death , and .-/ho iovea us all , to -give her back to her mother and brother. But they must do their part* %e must fcft* ve food, and here was medicine . So I outlined for them her treatment . They haci. borrowed of tlio bible-.onan i-o cash*-about .Io esots goll , - to pay for the medicine- This money w® returned to .them, t e l l ing th^em to buy O-T-S for the sick girl to eat* . -As -we turSE to co^e ^'^ff we saw under the rickety table , the festoon of 'vhite papor they had prepared, roaay to to placed outc-ide the yard g&,tdf to announce that a death had occur®- id. Then. ~Aijin to otjg^d to igg* them to put, aside the thought |