The Natives Worked Away Hard,
Knowing That It Saved The Polluting Of A Long Stretch Of Market
Road, And When It Was Finished Miss Slessor Went To Her Own House By
It And Attended With All Kindness, Promptness, And Skill, To The
Woman And Children.
I arrived in the middle of this affair for my
first meeting with Miss Slessor, and things at Okyon were rather
crowded, one way and another, that afternoon.
All the attention one
of the children wanted - the boy, for there was a boy and a girl - was
burying, for the people who had crammed them into the box had
utterly smashed the child's head. The other child was alive, and is
still a member of that household of rescued children all of whom owe
their lives to Miss Slessor. There are among them twins from other
districts, and delicate children who must have died had they been
left in their villages, and a very wonderful young lady, very plump
and very pretty, aged about four. Her mother died a few days after
her birth, so the child was taken and thrown into the bush, by the
side of the road that led to the market. This was done one market-
day some distance from the Okyon town. This particular market is
held every ninth day, and on the succeeding market-day some women
from the village by the side of Miss Slessor's house happened to
pass along the path and heard the child feebly crying:
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