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Portage Sentinel prints tale of Native and settler mercy
In a long excerpt from a mixed page story a white hunter and a Native mother and child share a starving moment, while a young Indian saves a trapped couple. A later letter by Mr. Burritt minds England’s charity and contrasts English child labor with American concerns, then shifts to a graphic poverty scene of English nail makers and their families, invoking literacy and hope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Narris
Flow
Thor
Jane
Son
Panter Boy
Pleisabi
Burritt
England
Nature
Wailers
Tursuar
Worcester
Broomsgrove
America
John Russell
John
Ind
Duke of Wellington
Jeemes
Jammy
Jemmy
Esse