"
"Mebbe it was appleplexy," suggested Elmer Spiker.
"Mebbe it was," said Josiah. "It must have been somethin' like that;
but whatever it was, there stood the boy. 'You is free,' he says,
addressin' the scholars. And the children broke from the seats and
started for'a'd to worship him. And Pinky Binn was almost on her knees
at his feet, when a strange thing happened.
"There was music. It come soft first, and hushed the school, and froze
the scholars like statutes. Louder it come and louder--a heavenly
choir--the melodium, the cordine, and the fiddle. Then a great white
light flooded the school-room. It blinded the boys, and it blinded the
girls. The music played softer and softer--the melodium, the cordine,
and the fiddle--and with it, keepin' time with it, the light come
softer, too; so lookin' up the scholars seen there in the celestial
glow, a solemn company gethered round the boy--the he-roes of
old--Hercules and General Grant, Joshuay and Washington--all the mighty
fighters of history. Just one glimpse the scholars had, for the music
struck up louder, and the light glowed brighter and brighter till it
blinded them.
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