AUTHOR OF "MARY SLESSOR OF CALABAR"
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1917,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
ALL GIRLS AND BOYS
WHO ARE
LOOKING FORWARD
AND
DREAMING DREAMS
"She left all and followed Him."
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] |