rose, took my hand, 
and said, 

"Mr. Walton, you wUl preach now. I thank God for 
the good we shall all get from the  you have gone 
through." 

" I ought to be the better for it," I answered. 

" You wiU be the better for it," he returned. " I believe 
I've alius been the better for any  as ever I had to 
go through with. I couldn't quite say the same for every 
bit of good luck I had  leastways I consider  the 
best luck a man can have. And I wordnetdesire you a good-night, 
sir. Thank God ! again." 

" But, Rogers, you don't mean it would be good for us to 
have bad luck always, do you ? You shouldn't be pleased 
at what's come to me now, in that case." 

" No, sir, sartinly not." 

"How can you say, then, that bad luck is the best luck?" 

" I mean the bad luck that comes to us  not the bad luck 
that doesn't come. But you're right, sir. Good luck or 
bad luck's both best when Se sends 'em, as He alius does. 
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