Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    spot, and there, wedged between the thick growth, seated in a shallow basket roughly cased in skins, was a bonny boy, of some two or three years of age, beating the sides of the frail craft with his brown fists. “ Hallo ! my little man, how earnest thou here ? A second Moses, forsooth ! ” The child looked up and smiled a reply, holding out two sturdy arms to the stranger. His clothing simply consisted of a little woollen shirt which barely covered his knees, while his head was crowned with a thick mass of golden curls. “ A handsome lad, too, which speaks well for Pharoah’s daughter,” murmured the rescuer, “but I can’t leave him here.” And carefully lifting the basket and its freight, he made his way back to the bank. Placing the boy in front of him, the traveller sat down on a grassy knoll and looked at him closely. “ Poor little atom of frail humanity,” he mused. “ I wonder who caused thee to come to life. Thou wast not consulted, I warrant. And why wast thou cast on the stream of life, and abandoned, perhaps by she
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