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"But I brought a book from home, in which I am much interested 'Bishop Hannington's Life' and as you are so good as to spare me, I mean to explore some of those shady lanes; they are so nice and quiet." Edna was about to make another mischievous rejoinder, but as she looked at Bessie she refrained.
That is the spirit in which he went out and in turn laid down his life helping to fill the trench to such good purpose that his own son, in after years, baptised the son of his murderer! Hannington's life in Africa was a constant succession of dangers faced, difficulties overcome, and hardships endured, all of which his intense faith, and his gift of humour, enabled him to go through cheerfully.
A little later comes an important entry in his diary: " opened a correspondence with me to-day, which I speak of as delightful; it led to my conversion". Thereafter followed a change in Hannington's life he prayed more.
The transient attractions of the Museum were constantly diversified, and educated dogs, industrious fleas, automatons, jugglers, ventriloquists, living statuary, tableaux, gypsies, Albinoes, fat boys, giants, dwarfs, rope-dancers, live "Yankees," pantomime, instrumental music, singing and dancing in great variety, dioramas, panoramas, models of Niagara, Dublin, Paris, and Jerusalem; Hannington's dioramas of the Creation, the Deluge, Fairy Grotto, Storm at Sea; the first English Punch and Judy in this country, Italian Fantoceini, mechanical figures, fancy glass-blowing, knitting machines, and other triumphs in the mechanical arts; dissolving views, American Indians, who enacted their warlike and religious ceremonies on the stage these, among others, were all exceedingly successful.
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