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 people. He promised, however, at Nattie's urgent request, to go that way before a year should pass by. Mr. Nesmith, who learned the young man's parentage from his son, was anxious that he should be rescued from the Indian mode of life, and made a useful man in civilized society.

Nattie had some pretty clothes made for her journey. She was much surprised to find it, as she expressed it, "such a long way home." She found little Tiny much grown; and Irish Biddy was wild with delight when she found that Miss Nattie had returned home, all safe and sound.

"But shure, an' ye can niver kape this great house, an' be afther doin' all the work?" she cried in amaze.

"I am going to try," was Nattie's meek reply.

She did try. And don't you suppose she succeeded, children? Of course she did; for who ever said, "I'll try," with a brave, willing heart, and failed of accomplishing a high purpose? Truly, no one, if they also trusted in God, as did