Denny; Or, from Haven to Haven

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. RESCUED. NE evening in the twilight, when the stars were peeping out one by one, and the quiet waters shimmered faintly beneath the mild rays of a crescent moon, there rose from the cabin of a tight little vessel the sound of a clear childish treble singing blithely--' Canaan! bright Canaan! The glorious land of Canaan 1 Oh. Canaan is a happy place, Come, let us go to Canaan! What do you know about Canaan? It's Calcutta you mean, isn't it? said a bronzed and bearded man, at the same moment entering the cabin and catching the little singer fondly in his arms. What do you know about Canaan, eh, Maggie? A lot, father! Dale often tells me about it. It's a lovely place, and we're all going there some day--you, and me, and all of us! It's where the poor boy is going, if he don't get well soon, added the little maid, with a sudden saddening of her pretty brown eyes. She slid from his arms as she spoke, and crept on tiptoe to a hammock, wherein lay a boy of some ten years of age. The man followed her, and stood looking gravely at the small emaciated form and pale countenance, and shook his head. Yet I believe after all he'll pull through, he said hopefully, for the little girl's eyes began to fill. Don't pipe your eye yet. He evidently has a first-rate constitution, or he wouldn't be lying there now. You're a capital nurse, little one. You and Dale will have all the credit if you set the lad on his legs again, that's clear. It's time for him to wake now, and take his medicine, said Maggie, with a womanly little air which sat quaintly on her dimpled face; only I won't wake him. Dale says sleeping is better for him than the.whole bottleful of medicine. Dale and you are uncommonly thick, said the father, with a good-humoured and not ill-...