CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| Chief Dates in Miss Slessor's Life | [xi] |
| CHAPTER I | |
| Tells how a little girl lived in a lowly home, and played,and dreamed dreams, and how a dark shadow came into herlife and made her unhappy; how when she grew older shewent into a factory and learned to weave, and how in herspare minutes she taught herself many things, and workedamongst wild boys; and how she was sent to Africa | [1] |
| CHAPTER II | |
| How our heroine sailed away to a golden land of sunshineacross the sea; how she found that under all the beauty therewere terrible things which made life a misery to thedark-skinned natives; how she began to fight their evil ideasand ways and to rescue little children from death; how,after losing all her loved ones, she took a little twin-girlto her heart, and how she grew strong and calm and brave | [22] |
| CHAPTER III | |
| Ma's great adventure: how she went up-river by herself in acanoe and lived in a forest amongst a savage tribe; howshe fought their terrible customs and saved many lives;how she built a hut for herself and then a church, and howshe took a band of the wild warriors down to the coastand got them to be friends with the people who hadalways been their sworn enemies | [45] |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Stories of how Ma kept an armed mob at bay and saved thelives of a number of men and women; how in answer to asecret warning she tramped a long distance in the dark tostop a war; how she slept by a camp-fire in the heart ofthe forest, and how she became a British Consul andruled Okoyong like a Queen | [69] |
| CHAPTER V | |
| Ma's great love for children; her rescue of outcast twinsfrom death; the story of little Susie, the pet of thehousehold; and something about a new kind of birthday thatcame oftener than once a year | [90] |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| How the Queen of Okoyong brought a high British official totalk to the people; how she left her nice home and wentto live in a little shed; how she buried a chief at midnight;how she took four black girls to Scotland, and afterwardsspent three very lonely years in the forest | [105] |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| Tells of a country of mystery and a clever tribe who wereslave-hunters and cannibals, and how they were foughtand defeated by Government soldiers; how Ma wentamongst them, sailing through fairyland, and how shebegan to bring them to the feet of Jesus | [120] |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| Ma learns to ride a bicycle and goes pioneering; the Governmentmakes her a Judge again and she rules the people;stories of the Court, and of her last visit to Scotland witha black boy as maid-of-all-work; and something about abeautiful dream which she dreamed when she returned,and a cow and a yellow cat | [140] |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| Ma goes farther up the Creek and settles in a heathen town inthe wilds; she enters into happy friendships with youngpeople in Scotland; has a holiday in a beautiful island,where she makes a secret compact with a lame boy; andis given a Royal Cross for the heroic work she has done | [163] |
| CHAPTER X | |
| This chapter tells how Ma became a gypsy again and lived ona hill-top, and how after a hard fight she won a new regionfor Jesus; gives some notes from her diary and letters tolittle friends at home, and pictures her amongst hertreasures | [183] |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| What happened when the Great War broke out. Ma's lastvoyage down the Creek; how her life-long dream cametrue | [198] |
| Index | [207] |
My life, my all, Lord, I entreat,
Take, and use, and make replete
With the love and patience sweet
That made Thy life so complete.
Mary Slessor.