suffered heavy losses: and the frantic grief that burst out afresh as news of one disaster after another was received, must have been painful in the extreme.' Here an aged mother barely able to. limp out-doors on her cruelly crippled feet waving her shrivel-Jed arms with bitter wailings over the pitiless deep; she, has—lost her -two sons and is reduced to be Yonder a grey-headed old man leaning on fantastically. twisted and brightly coloured crutch strains his dim eyes and bravely holds his grief in bounds while hope clings to the brave sons who were seen drifting headlong toward the breakers. Many comparatively happy family is crushed while others are consumed with anxiety lest the worst be after all true! It is to be hoped that many who are supposed to have been Jost will yet return to their homes. Every additional
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