The old lady's heart seemed full of love for the South, yet she
was strongly for the Union, and said she should be so if any other section
or State rebelled.
Lansdale was full of excitement, flags flying everywhere; they had one
streaming across from the top of the house, and another from a tree in the
garden.
Harry had enlisted in response to the first call of troops, and was now
away, fighting in Virginia; while she, praying night and day for his
safety, was, with most of the ladies of the town, busy as a bee knitting
stockings and making shirts for the men in the field, and preparing lint,
bandages, and little dainties for the sick and wounded.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND.
"Calm me, my God, and keep me calm
While these hot breezes blow;
Be like the night-dew's cooling balm
Upon earth's fevered brow."
--H. BONAR.
"Fear not; I will help thee."
--ISAIAH xiii. 13.
"Dear old auntie! to think how hard at work for her country she is, while
I sit idle here," sighed Elsie, closing the letter after reading it aloud
to the assembled family. "Mamma, papa, Edward, is there nothing we can
do?"
"We can do just what they are doing," replied Rose with energy, "I wonder
I had not thought of it before; shirts, stockings, lint, bandages, we can
prepare them all; and send with them such fruits and delicacies as will
carry from this far-off place.
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