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make them fear them. Some have one name and 
some have two. 
Garilla is a real smart little fellow, just about a 
yard high. He can read the Bible, and takes great 
delight in committing verses' to memory and in 
singing, ^‘We are toiling up the way.’’ Little 
Garilla is a faithful Sabbath-school pupil, and a 
great favorite with all who. know him. 
Harry Yarn is a big boy. His father is the 
head-man for a country village, and carves wooden 
gods for the heathen to worship. He carved one 
which is in the mission-rooms in Dayton, Ohio. 
Sometimes the school-boys in Shengay laugh at^ 
Harry and make fun of him because his father 
makes wooden gods ; but Harry says nothing, for 
he is a good boy and is trying to be a Christian. 
He, too, is a dear lover of the Sabbath-school. 
His father sent him to Shengay to attend the mis- 
sion-school and to learn white man’s fashion.” 
Little Tommy Reader was a dear little boy, and 
his mother is a good woman. She taught Tommy 
to say his prayers, morning and evening, and to 
isk a blessing before eating. He used to say he 
wanted to be a missionary. He would go all 
through the village and enter the huts and barras, 
and if he saw people eating he would ask them if 
they prayed first ; if they had not, he would tell 
them they must pray first and then God would 
