Faithful Schoolmistress.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 31 July 1914, Page 8

Faithful Schoolmistress.

A recent book, entitled "Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West,'' gives a pathetic story of a little schoolmistress who was faithful to the end. She had been visiting, and, with a dozen or more people, was caught by a tremendous cyclone. They were in a house which stood on the edge of a. high bluff. The house was wrecked, and every inmate but one loilled. This survivor said that the family were at supper when the storm struck the house, and the schoolmistress happened to sit next the baby, which was crowing in its high chair. When they found Ihe poor gir] that night, she was still alive, although she died almost instantly. The wind had torn off her clothes, even her two rings, and left her but one shoe. Her hair was whipped to rags. She had been driven through several barbed-wire fences. ; and every bone in her body was : broken. In her arms, however, and clasped tightly to hei1 breast, was ■■ the dead body of the little child, j Woman-like, she had sei/.od the baby when she felt the shock of the storm, and not even the cyclone itself had been able to tear it from her arms. i