Do thou from mansions of eternal bliss
Remember thy distressed relict.
Look on her with an angel's love--
Soothe her sad life and cheer her end
Through this world's dangers and its griefs.
Then meet her with thy well-known smiles and welcome
At the last great day.
"Well, I can't make out what the old lady was driving at," said
Dan.
"That's a nice way to speak of your great-grandmother," said
Felicity severely.
"How does The Family Guide say you ought to speak of your great-
grandma, sweet one?" asked Dan.
"There is one thing about it that puzzles me," remarked Cecily.
"She calls herself a GRATEFUL widow. Now, what was she grateful
for?"
"Because she was rid of him at last," said graceless Dan.
"Oh, it couldn't have been that," protested Cecily seriously.
"I've always heard that Great-Grandfather and Great-Grandmother
were very much attached to each other."
"Maybe, then, it means she was grateful that she'd had him as long
as she did," suggested Peter.
"She was grateful to him because he had been so kind to her in
life, I think," said Felicity.
"What is a 'distressed relict'?" asked Felix.
"'Relict' is a word I hate," said the Story Girl. "It sounds so
much like relic. Relict means just the same as widow, only a man
can be a relict, too.
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