62 THE HIGHLAND CAT.

 

prayed that he would send them some
food, and keep them and their darling
children from starving. Still no help
came. The father was taken sick, and,
for want of proper food, he grew worse
rapidly, and died. The mother, with a
sad heart, buried her husband. You
might suppose that she gave up in de-

spair, when the father of those children |
was taken from her. But she did not
give up. Still she trusted in God, and
still she prayed to him, and begged
him to send help to her and her pre-
cious babes. Stiff with cold, hungry
and weary, the mother, after she had