. Book of the Royal blue . he time whenall my religion and philosophy was put tothe test. My husband was away, ill inSpringfield, and this was only three weeksbefore the birth of another child. Yet, inall this tribulation, my God upheld me. This modern Penelope had her loom andspindle like Penelope of old, and with themshe supported herself and her childrenthrough the three long years of her hus-bands absence. Brown himself once said: I haveoften told my wife that when the timecame for me to fight against slavery, shemight take it as a signal for our separa-tion. And when I started out, he con
. Book of the Royal blue . he time whenall my religion and philosophy was put tothe test. My husband was away, ill inSpringfield, and this was only three weeksbefore the birth of another child. Yet, inall this tribulation, my God upheld me. This modern Penelope had her loom andspindle like Penelope of old, and with themshe supported herself and her childrenthrough the three long years of her hus-bands absence. Brown himself once said: I haveoften told my wife that when the timecame for me to fight against slavery, shemight take it as a signal for our separa-tion. And when I started out, he con-cluded, she got medicine and bandagestogether, realizing only too well what theoutcome would be to me and my men. Browns life was a series of bloodyepisodes, but it must not be inferred fromthis that the man lacked tenderness. Whenhis son worked in the tannery for hisfather, John junior, boylike, was just atthe age when it is especially hard for aboy to be confined indoors. His spiritswere hard to keep down to work in the. Looking Up the River from the Ferry. s THE HERO OF HARPERS FERRY. monotonous treadmill, and the old blindhorse which it was his duty to drive wastoo often left to stop of his own accord. Theold man devised a scheme for keeping arecord of his sons sins of omission, whichwas to be balanced by lashes. When tin-day of settlement came, however, thefather exhibited the list of credited sinsand paid one-third of the debt with a bluebirch rod. The remainder he forced theboy to put on his own bared back. And his grief over the loss of his chil-dren was not less than that of otherfathers, whose lives lay along more peace-ful lines. John Brown was ill some three monthsin Springfield. One of his letters to his In the last year of John Browns life,he made the most daring of all his trips toCanada. The president of the UnitedStates had publicly offered a reward ofthree thousand dollars for his capture, buthe was nothing daunted. He startedacross Southern Kansas, with one
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