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William Henry Giles Kingston. The Grateful Indian, and Other Stories
The Grateful Indian, and Other Stories
Table of Contents
W.H.G. Kingston
"The Grateful Indian"
Chapter One
The Grateful Indian, A Tale of Rupert’s Land. By William H.G. Kingston
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Chapter Two
The Shepherd Lord, by Julia Corner, Author of the “Historical Library,” etcetera
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Chapter Three
The Story of Nelson, by W.H.G. Kingston
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Chapter Four
An Adventure on the Black Mountain, by Frances M. Wilbraham
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Chapter Five
The Boatswain’s Son: A Tale of the Sea, by William H.G. Kingston
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Chapter Six
Voices of the Night. Prelude
Hymn to the Night
A Psalm of Life. What the Heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist
The Reaper and the Flowers
The Light of Stars
Footsteps of Angels
Flowers
The Beleaguered City
Midnight Mass for the Dying Year
Chapter Seven
Earlier Poems
An April Day
Autumn
Woods in Winter
Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem, at the consecration of Pulaski’s Banner
Sunrise on the hills
The Spirit of Poetry
Burial of the Minnisink
Chapter Eight
Translations. King Christian. A National Song of Denmark. From the Danish of Johannes Evald
The Celestial Pilot. From Dante’s Purgatorio, II
The Terrestrial Paradise. From Dante, Purgatorio, XXVIII
Spring
Song of the Bell. From the German
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William Henry Giles Kingston
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“Why, Harry, we are as safe up here as on the ground,” he answered, in his usual sweet tone of voice, “God is still watching over us!”
I need scarcely say how tightly I held on to his clothes, trembling lest he should fall. I felt no inclination to go to sleep, indeed I soon found that I must have slept the greater part of the night, for before Malcolm again opened his eyes, I observed the bright streaks of dawn appearing over the distant hills in the east. Daylight quickly came on. It was again perfectly calm, and on looking down, we could see the blades of grass rising above the water. Malcolm woke up, saying that he felt much better. Looking down below us, he said that he thought the water had decreased since he went to sleep. He might have been right, I could not tell. At that moment there was only one thing I thought of, the pain I was suffering from hunger. “I shall die! I shall die!” I exclaimed. Malcolm cheered me up.
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