A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 105: what you’re looking at

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A STUDY IN SCARLET. 97 hands to make them rise. “Say, did God make this country ? ” “In course He did,” said her companion, rather startled by this unexpected question. “He made the country down in Illinois, and He made the Missouri,” the little girl continued. “I guess somebody else made the country in these parts. It's not nearly so well done. They forgot the water and the trees.” “What would ye think of offering up prayer?” the man asked, diffidently. “Tt ain’t night yet,” she answered. “Tt don’t matter. It ain’t quite regular, but He won’t mind that, you bet. You say over them ones that you used to say every night in the wagon when we was on the plains.” “Why don’t you say some yourself ?” the child asked, with wondering eyes. ‘“‘T disremember them,” he answered. ‘‘I hain’t said none since I was half the height o’ that gun. I guess it’s never too late. You say them out, and I'll stand by and come in on the choruses.” “Then you'll need to kne_l down, and me too,” she said, laying the shawl out for that purpose. “ You've got to put your hands up like this. It makes you feel kind of good.” It was a strange sight, had there been anything but the buzzards to see it. Side by side on the narrow shawl knelt the two wanderers, the little, prattling child and the reckless, hardened adventurer. Her chubby face and his haggard, angular visage were both turned CONMIE OOO KS (C@