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Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary (Classic Reprint)
Mary Slessor of Calabar Pioneer Missionary - Classic Reprint Author:W. P. Livingstone The curtain of the big bed hung down beside the cot. — When old Jenny shook it the wooden rings rattled on the v pole and grey men with pointed heads and squat, bulging bodies came out of the folds on to the flat green ground. If you looked at them they turned into squab faces smeared with green. — Every night, when Jenny had gone away with the do... more »ll-and the donkey, you hunched up the blanket and the stiff white counterpane to hide the curtain and you played with the knob in the green painted iron railing of the cot. It stuck out close to your face, winking and grinning at you in a friendly way. You poked it till it left off and turned grey and went back into the railing. Then you had to feel for it with your finger. It fitted the hollow of your hand, cool and hard, with a blunt nose that pushed agreeably into the paWT.
In the dark you could go tip-finger along the slender, lashing flourishes of the ironwork. By stretching your arm out tight you could reach the curlykew at the end. The s
Table of Contents
Infancy (1865-1869)1; BOOK TWO; Childhood (1869-1875) 39; BOOK THREE; Adolescence (1876-1879)91; BOOK FOUR; Maturity (1879-1900) 155; BOOK FIVE; Middle Age (1900-1910) 329
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