The Moffats . esand children. Then shall they who sent us know,164 BLACK BUGBEARS and God, who now sees and hears what we do, shallknow that we have been persecuted indeed. There was an answering fire in Mary Moffatseyes as she looked proudly at her husband andthen wonderingly at the black faces which con-fronted him. Glancing around upon his com-panions, the chief shook his head significantly.^*These men must have ten lives, said he, sincethey are so fearless of death; there must be some-thing in immortality. Thus saying, he turned away, and the wholecompany broke ranks and dispersed. About t
The Moffats . esand children. Then shall they who sent us know,164 BLACK BUGBEARS and God, who now sees and hears what we do, shallknow that we have been persecuted indeed. There was an answering fire in Mary Moffatseyes as she looked proudly at her husband andthen wonderingly at the black faces which con-fronted him. Glancing around upon his com-panions, the chief shook his head significantly.^*These men must have ten lives, said he, sincethey are so fearless of death; there must be some-thing in immortality. Thus saying, he turned away, and the wholecompany broke ranks and dispersed. About thesemissionaries was a touch of that matchless hero-ism which once awed a band of Roman soldiersinto saying, **Never man spake like this man. 165 CHAPTER XITHE WHITE MANS BURDEN^ Take up the white mans burden; Ye dare not stoop to less,Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloak your weariness;By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do,The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your God and you. —Rudyard Kipling-. LITTLE MABY MOFFAT. . HAND IN HANDWITH DICKY . .HEE PLAYMATE. XI THE WHITE MANS BURDEN
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