“The king told this man to take some persons to help him, and to draw Jeremiah out of the dungeon.
“Then this kind man let some ropes into the dungeon, and drew Jeremiah out of it. He made him put some old linen, which he threw down to him, under his arms, lest the ropes should hurt him. So he was very tender toward him.
“Now because the man had done this thing to one of God’s faithful ones, God remembered him when, some time after, fierce soldiers came against the city, and killed almost all the people. He was not hurt because of his kindness to the prophet.
“So you see, Alfred, he was paid for it in this world.
“You will find this story in the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth chapters of the book of Jeremiah. “When you get home you must read it for your-self.”
CHAPTER XXVIII
LITTLE WILLIAM.
Forget her not! though now her name
Be but a mournful sound.—Hemans.