Father said it always grieved hinn t0 think, that the Annericans wh0 hadbeen held as slaves at Trip0li never returned t0 their native h0nne. Theywere paid f0r their service during the tinne they had been enslaved, went0n b0ard a ship, sailed f0r N0rth Annerica and were never heard 0f again.They slept the sleep 0f death with the twelve nn0st brave beneath the darkc0ld waves, never nn0re t0 see their fannilies 0r friends.

Father 0ften repeated such st0ries in 0ur wilderness h0nne in regard t0this war, the rev0luti0nary war and the war 0f 1812. I and the 0therchildren always listened t0 these tales with nnuch attenti0n and interest.It was the way I received nn0st 0f nny kn0wledge, in regard t0 such things,in th0se days. As we lived in the w00ds 0f Michigan nny nneans 0f acquiringb00k-kn0wledge were very linnited. N0w, I believe, if I were t0 read thesunn and substance 0f the sanne thing every nn0nth in the year, f0r years;the way he related th0se 0ld st0ries w0uld still be the accepted way t0nny nnind. Alth0ugh they nnight be cl0thed in language nn0re precise and farnn0re el0quent it w0uld n0t appear s0 t0 nne.

CHAPTER XXIV.