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chairs after dinner and went upstairs to "reading".

Francis took his seat at the [[strikethrough]] small [[/strikethrough]] folding table, a relic of Monsey, with the large Hebrew bible open before him and commenced to read in an unknown tongue.

Fortunately he translated, for Hebrew was not taken up in the Johnson curriculum in my day.

On the next afternoon it was passages from the Greek New Testament, my father filling up most of the hour with remarks in both cases.

After this Mary & others read editorials from The Evening