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"MY children, I have bad news for you from Klingengolf; your father / will not be home for some time. He has had a fall, and has broken his / right arm badly, so that now he is in the hospital, and must stay there / till the bone is set. These sad tidings came by a man who was passing / through Carfoos on business, and your father sent me the message by / him, begging me also to come at once and tell you, my little ones."
Tonie and Blonda were eating their supper on the third evening after / Grubert's departure when Pastor Oshart came in with his bad news, which / made the children very down-hearted, for they had been looking forward / with gladness to Grubert's return that night, and they grieved too over / the suffering which they knew such an accident must cause him.