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The Captive Chief

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BLIND HECTOR AND HIS DOG. Led by his faithful dog from door to door, Blind Hector wandered many a parish o'er: No beggar he; although by bounty fed, He never had to ask for clothes or bread? All had a welcome for the blind old man. With shouts of glee the children ran, And strove who first should lead away, As guest, the hero of the day. His faithful Tyke, that seemed possessed Of more than kindness in his breast, His blind old master's friend and guide, That never changed nor left his side? Unlike those friends that soon grow cold, If we are wretched, poor, and old? The faithful dog no meanness knew, And had no sordid aims in view. Along the rough uneven street He careful led the blind man's feet, Knew every house along the way, Knew where to call and where to stay; And well he knew their night's retreat, With " Hector's Corner " and his seat, Where oft he 'd sat, a welcome guest, To Sunday fare and Christmas feast. And when the earth lay wrapped in snow, He sat heside the peat-fire's glow, And to the listening ploughmen told Tales of his clansmen brave and bold,? Of dark Culloden's murd'rous fray, Where chief and clansmen vanquished lay, And he himself fell in the van, Amongst the bravest of his clan, And Crawled from thence at dead of night, A wounded man with loss of sight, And from that day he forth did roam An exile from his mountain home. For forty years a wand'rer's life he led, And nightly filled a beggar's bed; On rough-made bed of straw or hay For forty years the blind man lay; And ere his homely couch he prest, A solemn prayer rose from his breast, With thanks for mercies kindly given By his Almighty Friend in heaven; Then calm he laid him down to rest, With not a murmur in his breast. But mishap on the best will fall, And come alike on great and small. One ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217326742
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217326749
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 150 gr


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