“What is the matter, Asa?”
I said: “I wish I was never made!”
Father drew the hot nail-rod out of the fire and raised it as tho he was going to strike me, when I exclaimed:
“I don’t want to be killed, now I am made!” Then, with a hearty laugh, he took me home to mother.—“Incidents in a Busy Life.”
(1793)
Life as Testimony—See [Native Converts].
Life, Brevity of—See [Brevity of Life].
LIFE CHEAP
Mard Bird, in “Persian Women and Their Creed,” tells the following:
A Persian Haji’s baby had convulsions and the parents brought it to the Mohammedan village teacher, who said the child was possest, and the only remedy for her disease was for them to buy a prayer of the exact length of the child, and strap it on her back. The child was so long that the cost of the prayer was five dollars, and the parents decided that a girl baby was not worth that much and took her home to die.