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 and as my eye followed them, I noticed that some, after they had passed through the gate, seemed to think that all was safe; so they sat down in the fields, or amused themselves, wasting their time.

Many little children I saw amongst the company, travelling on the King's highway; and now and then an angel clothed in white, would catch up in his arms one, and then another of these children, and, placing them in a glorious chariot, hurry them on by a shorter way to the end of the journey. But all the travellers did not idle about the gate; they pitied those who did.