Trail-Tales of Western CanadaRobinson, F. A. (Frank Alfred)
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Trail-Tales of Western Canada
Robinson, F. A. (Frank Alfred)
Canadian fiction -- 20th century; Missions -- Canada, Western -- Fiction; Short stories, Canadian
"Let you come home? You bet I will, Nell--you bet I will." The last
words were re-uttered after the head had disappeared.
The only other words they heard were, "Ma! Ma!" uttered in a voice
trembling with joy.
No pen can adequately describe that home-coming. Jessie Buchanan was
forgotten for the moment, but as she saw the daughter's head resting
first on father's and then on mother's shoulder, and heard the old man
say again and again, "My Nell: oh! my Nell," her cup of joy was full.
It was not what one could call a praying home, but on that early
Sabbath morning four people knelt in the little sitting-room, and
Jessie Buchanan's first audible prayer was offered in thanksgiving for
the home-coming of the wanderer. And to-day, in the little church in
the grove, one of the regular worshippers is Nellie Gillard.
End of Project Gutenberg's Trail-Tales of Western Canada, by F. A. Robinson
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