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Page 38 - For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things,
Page 104 - ... took the Kingsley boy and young Slocum, aged thirteen, and little Frances, aged five, and prepared to depart. But finding young Slocum lame, at the earnest entreaties of the mother, they set him down and left him. Their captives were then young Kingsley and the little girl. The mother's heart swelled unutterably, and for years she could not describe the scene without tears. She saw an Indian throw her child over his shoulder, and as her hair fell over her face, with one hand she brushed it aside,...
Page 111 - She is painted and jewelled off, and dressed like the Indians in all respects. Nothing but her hair and covered skin would indicate her origin. They get an interpreter, and begin to converse. She tells them where she was born, her name, &c., with the order of her father's family. "How came your nail gone?" said the oldest sister. ':My...
Page 95 - The King of France with twenty thousand men, • Marched up the hill, and then marched down again.
Page 5 - AT the foot of one of those gigantic mountains in Asia* which lift up their heads so far above the clouds that the eye of man never saw their summits, stood a beautiful cottage, facing the east. The mountain...
Page 11 - As they proceeded, Hafed began to notice that every thing looked queer and odd. Some of the grass was green, some red, some white, some new, and some dying; some grew with the top downward: all kinds were mingled together; and on the whole, the sight was very painful.
Page 110 - Nine miles from the nearest white, they find the little wigwam. - I shall know my sister," said the civilized sister, because she lost the nail of her first finger. You, brother, hammered it off in the black-smith shop when* she was four years old.
Page 104 - ... and stretching out her other hand towards her mother, she called for her aid. The Indian turned into the bushes, and this was the last seen of little Frances. This image probably was carried by the mother to her grave. About a month after this they came again, and with the most awful cruelties, murdered the aged grand-father, and shot a ball in the leg of the lame boy. This he carried with him in his leg nearly sixty years, to the grave.
Page 23 - Hafed arose, recalled that ugly dream, and then wept for joy. Was he again in a world where chance does not reign ? He looked up, and then turned to the God of heaven and earth — the God of laws and of order. He gave glory to him, and confessed that his ways, to us unsearchable, are full of wisdom. Ho was a new man. Tears indeed fell at the graves of his family ; but he now lived to do good to men, and to make others happy.
Page 11 - The guide told Hafed that there was no certainty about these trees ; and you could never tell what fruit a tree would happen to bear. The tree which this year bears cucumbers may bear potatoes next year, and perhaps you would have to dig twenty feet for every potato you obtained. They soon met another of the