two of the children: the other two remained with their father and
mother.

It was ten months before the poor invalid was able to leave his
hospitable host, and resume his settlement in the bush. I mention this
little circumstance to show what kindly feelings exist between the
settlers, especially in cases of this kind. I shall also relate some
remarkable passages in this poor man's life which present an almost
unparalleled train of misfortune. I shall tell his dismal story, as
nearly as possible, in his own words.

The experience of life proves to a certainty, that some persons are
compelled to drink deeper of the cup of adversity than others, nay even
to drain it to the dregs.

We know that the Jews of old and the heathen world still suppose that
such are visited for their sins by the judgment of Heaven; but the
Divine Teacher has taught us better things, and warned us against such
rash conclusions, instructing us indeed that

"There surely is some guardian power
That rightly suffers wrong;
Gives vice to bloom its little hour,
But virtue late and long."

Poor G. was one of these unfortunate persons, whose melancholy history
I will now relate, in his own words.--He was, it seems, a native of
Ireland, from which country he emigrated soon after the last American
war, with his wife and two children, leaving three other children at
home with his father and mother, who were the proprietors of a small