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them good and happy, than drive them away to foreign 

 lands. I think the people here are mostly good. I had 

 not seen many of them till to-day ; but the few that re- 

 main came over the hills from all quarters to church, and 

 seemed very serious and devout. I sat in the minister's 

 seat, with his wife and two children, and another lady. 

 It was a warm day, and the children began to be very 

 sleepy, poor things. So the lady, who, I suppose, was 

 ashamed of them before strangers, every now and then 

 gave them a little shake. One of them had golden curly 

 hair, and its head shone and glittered in the sunbeams 

 every time that it was shooken. The mother tried another 

 plan, and gave them each a bit of sea-biscuit. This did 

 very well for a little ; but as soon as the biscuit was done, 

 they fell fast asleep, and nobody disturbed them any more. 

 I confess I was a little sleepy myself at one time ; but I 

 bit my tongue, and kept my eyes staring wide ; for I was 

 rather afraid that the minister's wife's sister would give 

 me a shake, just as she had the minister's wife's sons. 

 The church is the smallest church you ever saw, not nearly 

 so high as the -table at Woodville, and very little longer; 

 bat I doubt not that the prayers of pious Christians 

 ascend as directly to their heavenly Father from that 

 lowly dwelling as from the proudest cathedral. I will not 

 be very long away now. We leave this to-morrow ; but 

 rill we get to Inverness, we must travel slowly, for our 



