PREFACE.
At the solicitation of a number of the older citizens of Blair and Bedford counties, (Pa.) I have consented to publish this brief and thrilling narrative. The subject is one that does not require the pen of a ready writer to make it interesting, but a mere relation of the fact as they occurred I think cannot fail to interest all.
Children are the most interesting and at the same time the most helpless of all God's creatures, so that until they have reached certain years they are entirely dependent upon others for food, clothing, and protection. They do not have the least knowledge of danger. But in order that they may be protected and provided for in their tender years, God has, by the touch of His finger, implanted that love that burns in the heart of nearly all parents for their children. It was this love that led David in the bitterness of his grief to exclaim, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom; would God I had died for thee." A railroad engineer, as his train approached his home that was near the road, saw his little three
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