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The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Eva March Tappan
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bosom).

_Piety._ But you saw more then this, did you not?

_Chr._ The things that I have told you were the best; yet some other
matters I saw, as namely I saw three men, _Simple_, _Sloth_, and
_Presumption_, lye asleep a little out of the way as I came, with
Irons upon their heels; but do you think I could awake them? I also
saw _Formalist_ and _Hypocrisie_ come tumbling over the wall, to go,
as they pretended, to _Sion_; but they were quickly lost; even as I
myself did tell them, but they would not believe. But, above all I
found it hard work to get up this Hill, and as hard to come by the
Lion's mouths; and truly if it had not been for the good man, the
Porter that stands at the Gate, I do not know but that after all I
might have gone back again; but now I thank God I am here, and I thank
you for receiving of me.

Then _Prudence_ thought good to ask him a few questions, and desired
his answer to them.

_Prud._ Do you not think sometimes of the Country from whence you
came?

_Chr._ Yes, but with much shame and detestation: Truly, if I had been
mindful of that Country from whence I came out, I might have had
opportunity to have returned; but now I desire a better Country, that
is, an Heavenly.

_Prud._ Do you not yet bear away with you some of the things that then
you were conversant withal?
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