Golden Days for Boys and Girls / Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887

th the point of his boot, and told me that breakfast was ready. I arose at once, wash

He had laid out a route through Butler and Beaver counties t

rating life, and I like it. I've traveled over nearly all the States between the Atlantic

s, that he could afford to speak so positively, but I felt th

fe very well," I said, quietly.

r, in a lofty voice, as if he was announ

was to assist him in concocting and selling the

carrying his baggage, making his fires, and several o

is hexpensive, and I never stops at 'em, unless it's raining or

ighted at the prosp

y a great traveler, and he is going Wes

up his traps, and, dividing them betwe

of our room, the doctor manufactured three dozen bottles of the balsam,

redients of these justly celebrated remedies, bu

he toothache drops was merely a diluted essence of the oil of c

d in his oilcloth bag, and the bottles, boxes and vari

and will only mention that he once told me that the bottle and label forme

rdinary sight, but a quarter of a century ago he

tood why he followed such a life. In the town of Butler two days' s

ith another, I judged that he cleared at least fifty do

e in use among this class o

e would gravely walk down the main st

d bottles in attractive pyramids on the top of a box or a barrel, taking

ld mount on a soap-box, so as to raise hims

ales did he venture on a joke or a witticism, although he ha

he cockney dialect entirely disappeared. He never explained this to me,

a practiced physician, but when administered by quacks, it is little short of murder. Now, in my medicines I do not give you strange and deadly drugs. The articles I use are all known to you" (this was s

nto his confidence in a learned and fatherly way, until some fell

, he told stories, and even indulged in snatches of song, and he

metimes his eloquence was wasted. But at all times he was che

that he treated me very kindly. He paid me a very liberal salary of ten dolla

my belt for a rainy day, which I felt sure wo

l near the middle of December, as it was a very open winter, and it was near

s' rest, and for that purpose hired two rooms and kep

was to bear all expenses, I wil

ly uneventful, and about the fir

stage to Keokuk, Iowa, intending to travel up the river as far as St. Paul, and t

ate pursued me-or was it punishment for my foolish

CONTI

nal Lesson

21. Golden Te

t-THE PASSAGE

D. P. KI

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seven days after the Passover that t

," as it is in our version) of the Egyptians jewels of silver

se of a term of service, to ask gifts. The practice correspo

d supplied them abundantly. Thus, in some slight measure, they made return for the long y

urney of escape. Leaving Rameses, the western part of Goshen, they assembled at Succoth-"place of tents"-so called because it was a campin

y just on the edge of the desert. From this point there were three routes

n them right through the country of the warlike and hostile Philistines, and the middle route (after passing the great wall w

sed them. His important works were brought to a standstill; there was no one to make or ha

He learns, also, that they have not yet got out of the land of Egypt, and he thinks that by the fact that they have turned south, a

out after them, leaving orders, doubtless, for other chari

were in front of them; they could not turn to the right for the same reason; the Egyptians were in their rear, and the Red Sea was

NT HELP I

ael, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the

l: and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by nig

Israel, and that he was to come into collision again with that Being who had so

eving. It will be seen that the battle that is soon to follow will e

ten before, who talked familiarly with Abraham and Jacob. He is the

srael were at this time, it would be necessary that there be some elevated central object, so that those of the pe

t it was customary to carry a round grate with fire, held aloft on a pole. The ancient P

some strong internal fire, so that the host dwelt amid the darkness o

off all their vision so that they could not tell what the Israelites were doing, while to the latter it was as though it had caught and held the rays of the sett

TES ENTER T

caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that ni

the sea upon dry ground: and the waters were a wall

were making the best use of their time. They were making their escap

what are now called the Bitter Lakes. This wa

sing is supposed to have occurred, as there are now at Suez, the wind and the tide clearing a passage there would leave deep water on b

tection on the right and on the left flanks of the host. Thus, in Nahum 3:8, No (Thebes) is said to have the sea (the broad Nile) for the rampart and a wall-that is, a defense, a protection against enemies. It is true that in poetical passages the waters are said to have stood 'as a heap' (Exod. 15:8; Psa.

sage open until all the Israelites had crossed and

Y FOLLOW

r them to the midst of the sea, even all Pha

ked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fi

ily; so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of

not said that Pharaoh went in, and yet as the post of the king is usually represented on the ancient monuments as leading his soldie

sand in his army. The processes of manufacture of chariots and harness are fully illustrated by existing

hanged into a storm cloud, blazing with lightning and growling with thunder. This was terrifying to t

lashes of fire. Thunderbolts also were darted upon them; nor was there anything which Go

e sand, and in some cases the wheels were wrenched off, so that the superstitious Egyptians recognized the fact that the God of Israel was fig

three watches-the first watch, the middle watch and the morning watch. It appears that the Israel

ROW OF PHA

over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the

to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled aga

e horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the

Moses rise upon the opposite bank. They saw him stretch forth that terrible rod-that rod which had left so many deep scars upon the fair land of Egypt-and immediately the wind ceased, its st

ly convert the low, flat sand-banks, first into a quicksand, and then into a mass of waters, in a time far le

d. The disaster was overwhelming, crushing. The Egyptians never

THE LORD'

in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wa

of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel

d upon the Egyptians; and the people feared the L

to doubt that God was with them. Repeatedly had they seen their enemies baffled and discomfited; now they saw them destroyed. What folly to contend

an unarmed people, with not a soldier in all their ranks, nor a weapon worthy the name, had triumphed over a chosen detachme

nt) drove the bodies of the drowned Egyptians to the eastern side of the gulf, where many of them were cast up upon

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rming description of his pet raven. There were no ravens where we lived; but

rry bush" in the woods near the house, little Ikey, our color

derful bird, and we crowded around Ikey, who seemed

do with him?" "How much will you take for hi

nned, as he answe

but I couldn't git ony dis one. I'm a-gwine to raise him if m

ing homeward with a handful of coppers and two nickels-all the change we cou

holding up her hands. "What

nd we're going to tame hi

e I'll have a crow about the house, to ki

till at last she gave her

d grandma. "It's a young bird, and

to us to feed our pet on scraps of meat and bits of bread. It opened

ed us as to the m

it'll open its mouth like it doe

d his advic

ove so much that he was soon able to procure his own

low him perfect freedom, withou

from which he would circle around and around the house, then alight on the ground, and come hop

me squirrel," Tom used to say, "f

fastened by a chain," said Josie. "Bu

to grumble over his misdemeanors, especially when he would rummage in

he would declare, "and if I had

our favorite, to keep him

to talk, but he was a poor scholar, and co

continued to take his

he was not very favorably disposed toward the race of crows. But wh

lls up my corn, I'll s

ung chickens, he'll ha

en, I'll wring his ne

we suffered considerabl

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FLOWN TO THE HE

r, while Jack sat perched on

the chicken-yard, caused by a hawk which h

le to carry off its prey immediately, and before papa could seize his gun an

at ensued, in which Jack came off the victor. But not satisfied with this, he pur

ny praises and a sumptuous dinner

raising, and even mamma espoused Jack's cause a

ed by the hawks, as he kept a vigilant watch, and atta

ly aloof from the corn-field; but grandma was still

n-spot was paled in, to keep the chickens and rabbits from

ck out. Like the wind, he

vegetables, but did good service in picking up the insects

he life of the "Boston Marrows," grandma's last prejudice was o

would give an answering "caw!" and hop gravely after her, or perc

grow in the good opinion of the househo

enticed away from it. He even declined the plump crick

urned sincerely by the whole family, from grandma down, and w

over it, and Fred put up a shingle for a headstone, wit

andy, Jac

cake and su

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