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THE bird picture book proved indeed a great joy to May, as Billy had thought it would, and many were the hours she spent poring over it during the long winter days when bad weather kept her indoors. She was quick to learn the names of the pictured birds she did not already know by sight, and eager to find out all about them. The Vicar could give her more information than anyone else. All she learnt from him she repeated to Billy.
After Christmas Billy attended the village school. He was in better health now, and far less nervous in every way. The distressing dreams which had haunted his sleep for so many weeks disturbed him no longer. "Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night," he reminded himself if he awoke in the darkness; whilst morning and evening he prayed Tom Turpin's prayer, "Be not Thou far from me, O Lord," and felt it was answered.