(Sherman Day's
Hist. Coll. of Penn.)
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Bethuel Vincent, carried by the Indians to Canada, being then recently
married. A few years after, a rough-looking man fell in with a
sleighing party at a tavern, and inquired if they knew anything of Mrs.
Vincent. She was pointed out to him. He gave her news of her husband,
and, joining the sleighing party, began to grow familiar with Mrs.
Vincent, and wished to take her upon his lap. She resisted,--but behold!
the rough-looking stranger was her long-lost husband. There are good
points in this story. (Ibid.)
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Among the survivors of a wreck are two bitter enemies. The parties,
having remained many days without food, cast lots to see who shall be
killed as food for the rest. The lot falls on one of the enemies. The
other may literally eat his heart!
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_October 13._--During this moon, I have two or three evenings sat for
some time in our dining-room without light except from the coal fire and
the moon. Moonlight produces a very beautiful effect in the room,
falling so white upon the carpet, and showing its figures so distinctly,
and making all the room so visible, and yet so different from a morning
or noontide visibility.
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