The innocents abroad; . they were the spies who reported favor-ably. They took back with them some specimens of the grapesof this country, and in the childrens picture-books they arealways represented as bearing one monstrous bunch swung toa pole between them, a respectable load for a pack-train. TheSunday-school books exaggerated it a little. The grapes aremost excellent to this day, but the bunches are not as large asthose in the pictures. I was surprised and hurt when I sawthem, because those colossal bunches of grapes were one of mymost cherished juvenile traditions. Joshua reported favora
The innocents abroad; . they were the spies who reported favor-ably. They took back with them some specimens of the grapesof this country, and in the childrens picture-books they arealways represented as bearing one monstrous bunch swung toa pole between them, a respectable load for a pack-train. TheSunday-school books exaggerated it a little. The grapes aremost excellent to this day, but the bunches are not as large asthose in the pictures. I was surprised and hurt when I sawthem, because those colossal bunches of grapes were one of mymost cherished juvenile traditions. Joshua reported favorably, and the children of Israel jour-neyed on, with Moses at the head of the general government,and Joshua in command of the army of six hundred thousandfighting men. Of women and children and civilians there was 442 THE ANCIENT RAID. a countless swarm. Of all that mighty host, none but the twofaithful spies ever lived to set their feet in the Promised and their descendants wandered forty years in the SUNDAY-SCHOOL GRAPES. and then Moses, the gifted warrior, poet, statesman and phi-losopher, went up into Pisgah and met his mysterious he was buried no man knows—for « * * * no man dug that sepulchre,And no man saw it eer— For the Sons of God upturned the sod•And laid the dead man there! Then Joshua began his terrible raid, and from Jericho clearto this Baal-Gad, he swept the land like the Genius of Destruc-tion. He slaughtered the people, laid waste their soil, andrazed their cities to the ground. He wasted thirty-one kingsalso. One may call it that, though really it can hardly becalled wasting them, because there were always plenty of kingsin those days, and to spare. At any rate, he destroyed thirty-one kings, and divided up their realms among his divided up this valley stretched out here before us, and soit was once Jewish territory. The Jews have long since dis-appeared from it, however. noahs tomb. 443 Back yonder, an hours
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