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fry if they could find the place under which his house 

 and stable were buried ; but they could not. However, 

 the month of April proving very hot, and the snow be- 

 ginning to melt, this unfortunate man was again encou- 

 raged to use his best endeavours. On the 24th, the 

 snow was greatly diminished, and he conceived hopes of 

 finding out his house by breaking the ice. He thrust 

 down a long pole, but the evening coming on, he pro- 

 ceeded no farther. His wife's brother dreamed the 

 same night, that his sister was still alive, and begged him 

 to help her. He rose early in the morning, told his 

 dream to Joseph and his neighbours, and went with 

 them, to work upon the snow, were they made another 

 opening, which led them to the house they searched for : 

 but finding no dead bodies in its ruins, they sought for 

 the stable, which was about 240 English feet distant, and 

 having found it, they heard a cry of " help, my dear 

 brother." Being greatly surprised as well as encouraged 

 by these words, they laboured till they had made a 

 large opening, through which the brother went down, 

 where the sister with a feeble voice told him, " I have 

 trusted always in God and you, that you would not for- 

 sake me." The other brother, and the husband then 

 went down, and found still alive the wife about 45, the 

 sister about 35, and a daughter about 13 years of age. 

 These they raised on their shoulders to men above, who 

 pulled them up, and carried them to a neighbouring 

 house ; they were unable to walk, and so wasted, that 

 they appeared like mere shadows. 



Some days after the inteudant came to see them, and 

 thc j y gave him the account that follows. In the morning 

 of the 19th of March, we were in the stable, with a 

 boy six years old, arid a girl about 13. In the same 

 stable were six goats, one of which had brought forth 

 two dead kids the evening before ; there were also an 

 ass and five or six fowls. We- were sheltering ourselves 

 in a corner of the stable, till the church-bell should ring, 

 intending to attend the service. The wife wanting to 

 go out of the stable to kindle a firg for her husband, 

 then clearing away snow from the top of the house, she 



