. The saints and missionaries of the Anglo-Saxon era : First [and second] series. gulf, with a precipicefearful to look at from the top. A stag was startedand pursued by the hounds. On came the King in full course up the hill in hot pursuit of the stag hastening onwards in his devious flight; both outof breath with fatigue; the stag anxious to savehis life, the King to overtake it. At last, finding no egress left by which it might escape, the animal bounded over the precipice and was crushed to death at the bottom, the pack of dogs followed and experienced the same fate. Behind them camethe ho
. The saints and missionaries of the Anglo-Saxon era : First [and second] series. gulf, with a precipicefearful to look at from the top. A stag was startedand pursued by the hounds. On came the King in full course up the hill in hot pursuit of the stag hastening onwards in his devious flight; both outof breath with fatigue; the stag anxious to savehis life, the King to overtake it. At last, finding no egress left by which it might escape, the animal bounded over the precipice and was crushed to death at the bottom, the pack of dogs followed and experienced the same fate. Behind them camethe horse on which the King was seated. He, seeing as he came nearer to the precipice, the peril which threatened him, drew rein, and would haveturned his horse aside—when suddenly the reins broke, and started from his hands and he was borne madly on. In this moment of agony, the wrongwhich he had done to Dunstan flashed on his mind,he doubted not that his present disaster was a judg-ment on him in consequence, and he made a vowthat if God would spare his life, he would repair .... X.
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