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432             UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR
ligently, — taught to read and write, and diligently in­structed in the Bible, by the care of a faithful and pious mistress; yet, would it not try the faith of the firmest Christians to find themselves abandoned, apparently, of God, in the grasp of ruthless violence ? How much more must it shake the faith of Christ's poor little ones, weak in knowledge and tender in years.
The boat moved on, — freighted with its weight of sor­row, — up the red, muddy, turbid current, through the abrupt, tortuous windings of the Red River; and sad eyes gazed wearily on the steep red-clay banks, as they glided by in dreary sameness. At last the boat stopped at a small town, and Legree, with his party, disembarked.