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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.18?? Excerpt:... LITTLE HENRY AND HIS BEARER. Henry L was born at Dinapore, in the East Indies. His father was an officer in the company's service, and was killed in attacking a mud-fort belonging to a petty rajah, a few months after the birth of his son. His mother also died before he was a year old. Thus little Henry was left an orphan when he was a very little babe; but his dying mother, when taking her last farewell of him, lifted up her eyes to heaven, and said, "0 God, I leave my fatherless child with thee, claiming thy promise in all humility; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy." Jeremiah 49:11; Hosea 14: 3. As soon as Henry's mamma was dead, a lady, who lived at that time in a large brick house near the river, between Patna and Dinapore, came and took little Henry, and gave him a room in her house, giving strict orders to her servants to provide him with every thing that he wanted. But as she was one of those fine ladies who will give their money, when they have any to spare, for the relief of distress, but have no idea how it is possible for any one to bestow all his goods to feed the poor, and yet want charity, she thought that when she had received the child, and given her orders to her servants, she had done all that was necessary for him. She would not afterwards suffer Henry to give her the least trouble, nor would she endure the smallest inconvenience on his account; and thus the poor child, being very small and unable to make known his wants, might have been cruelly neglected, had it not been for the attention of a bearer, who had lived many years with his papa, and had taken care of Henry from the day that he was born. When he was a very little babe, Boosy, for A servant whose work it is to assist in carrying a palanquin, in which persons in India ri...