A TRUE STORY OF ADVENTUREHEROISM AND FAITH
NEW YORKGEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
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Chief Dates in Miss Slessor's Life | xi |
CHAPTER I | |
Tells how a little girl lived in a lowly home, and played,and dreamed dreams, and how a dark shadow came into herlife and made her unhappy; how when she grew older shewent into a factory and learned to weave, and how in herspare minutes she taught herself many things, and workedamongst wild boys; and how she was sent to Africa | 1 |
CHAPTER II | |
How our heroine sailed away to a golden land of sunshineacross the sea; how she found that under all the beauty therewere terrible things which made life a misery to thedark-skinned natives; how she began to fight their evil ideasand ways and to rescue little children from death; how,after losing all her loved ones, she took a little twin-girlto her heart, and how she grew strong and calm and brave | 22 |
CHAPTER III | |
Ma's great adventure: how she went up-river by herself in acanoe and lived in a forest amongst a savage tribe; howshe fought their terrible customs and saved many lives;how she built a hut for herself and then a church, and howshe took a band of the wild warriors down to the coastand got them to be friends with the people who hadalways been their sworn enemies | 45[Pg viii] |
CHAPTER IV | |
Stories of how Ma kept an armed mob at bay and saved thelives of a number of men and women; how in answer to asecret warning she tramped a long distance in the dark tostop a war; how she slept by a camp-fire in the heart ofthe forest, and how she became ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |