The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can ReadBunyan, John
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The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read
Bunyan, John
Christian life -- Juvenile literature; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Juvenile literature
Neither could they, with all the skill they had, get again to the stile
that night. Wherefore, at last lighting under a little shelter, they sat
down there until daybreak; but, being weary, they fell asleep. Now,
there was, not far from the place where they lay, a castle, called
Doubting Castle the owner whereof was Giant Despair, and it was in his
grounds they now were sleeping; wherefore he, getting up in the morning
early, and walking up and down in his fields, caught Christian and
Hopeful asleep in his grounds. Then, with a grim and surly voice, he bid
them awake, and asked them whence they were, and what they did in his
grounds. They told him they were pilgrims, and that they had lost their
way. Then said the giant, "You have this night trespassed on me by
trampling in and lying on my grounds, and therefore you must go along
with me." So they were forced to go, because he was stronger than they.
They had also but little to say, for they knew themselves in fault. The
giant, therefore, drove them before him, and put them into his castle,
into a very dark dungeon, nasty and smelling vilely to the spirits of
these two men. Here, then, they lay from Wednesday morning till Saturday
night, without one bit of bread or drop of drink, or light, or any to
ask how they did; they were, therefore, here in evil case, and were far
from friends and people whom they knew. Now, in this place Christian had
double sorrow, because it was through his thoughtless haste that they
were brought into this distress.
[Sidenote: THE PILGRIMS IN A DUNGEON]
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