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they managed to get wherever they might be. After a day’s ride through 
the hot sun, they would ask a drink of milk at the village to which they 
came; and then, assembling the people in a corner of the cattle-fold, the 
missionary would tell the glad tidings he had come so far to bring. 
His sermon done, and some talk held with the people individually, the 
.THE PROPHETESS AT WORK. 
preacher would lie down on a mat in the corner of a hut for the night. 
After another address in the morning, the preacher and his companion 
would ride on toward another village, where the same thing would be 
repeated. Often their only breakfast was a drink of milk and some¬ 
times, on arriving in the evening at a point where they had expected 
to find a village, they would discover that lack of grass and water had 
compelled the inhabitants to drive their flocks and herds, and remove 
their rude huts and few belongings to some other point. 
