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HISTORY OF TWO BROTHERS. 



lancholy, a sail appeared ! Nearer and nearer she 

 came — she stood direct for the anchorage— a 

 boat left her, and landed. Thank heaven ! (he 

 cried^) it must be my brother^ returned with all 

 our lost property. Breathless with anxiety he 

 flew down to the beach ; but picture his dismay, 

 when instead of finding his brother as he fondly 

 anticipated, he fell into the hands of a gang of 

 pirates — robbers — and murderers. Read on, 

 L — s — n, read what thou hast been the cause of! 

 They plundered him, stripped him, and made 

 him a prisoner. Thus, in the space of one short 

 quarter of an hour was this poor man, from be- 

 ing elated with the prospects of embracing his 

 brother, recovering all his lost property, and con- 

 ceiving himself restored to all that could make 

 him happy, doomed to hear of his brother^s 

 death, his property irretrievably lost, all his 

 hopes on earth blighted, himself stripped and 

 plundered of all that remained, and a prisoner, 

 loaded with chains on board a pirate. So 

 far are the circumstantial facts of the history of 



