CHAPTER XI.
MR. KERR AND HIS FAMILY.
UPON one occasion, as the missionary was passing through the western portion of Clear Creek Settlement, he called at a house whose surroundings seemed familiar. The man of the house, too, appeared to him as one he had seen before, but he could not remember exactly where.
After some general remarks, he said to the man, “I almost fancy that I have seen you before to-day.”
“I suppose you have,” the man replied, with considerable agitation; and continued, “Do you not remember some time ago, standing at a gate and requesting a farmer to allow you to stay all night, and being refused, and that there was another man there beside the owner of the place?”
The missionary said he did.
“And you remember, also, that you gave a little boy and girl some picture-cards and tracts?”
“I do,” said the missionary.