In a tent! Sand for" a flooring. Here comes the crowd, " children, Children, children, women and. men, All listen interesiedly, curiously, Crowded so close some can not see, and all are asked to squat or sit on the ground. "But the edges never sit, they stand thick all round the three open sides and on a hot day the atmosphere yets very warm and oppressive.
One by one the speakers {ake their turns, talking and singing, pleading, showing pictures and telling stories, It fsa market day and many come and look and 0, Some stand for an hour oF two, game come at the beginning and Ave: hours later their faces are still listening attentively, and at the end they eeeive tracts, and Gospels to carry home.
The children play round the fect of the speaker in the sand and are quiet only having to be "gotten after" once in a while:
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