ptly executed.

Time passed, and the King of Burma becoming alarmed at the advance of
the English towards his capital, sent his representatives to treat with
them. Mr. Judson accompanied them to act as interpreter. He was not
in fetters, but he was still a prisoner. On his return he found that
his wife had been again ill with fever, and had been delirious for many
days. But the prospect of peace being soon declared cheered the
much-tried missionaries, and gave them fresh strength.

The terms offered by the English general had been refused by the King
of Burma; but when he found that the enemy would soon be at his capital
he quickly agreed to them, and sent the first instalment of the
indemnity down river to the victors. Mr. Judson was sent with the
Burmese officers to act as interpreter, and when the money had been
handed over to the English he was set free, after having undergone
twenty-one months' imprisonment, during seventeen of which he was in
fetters. That he had managed to live through that long imprisonment
was due to his wife's bravery and devoted attention. She had suffered
more than he, and her constitution, ruined by fever, privation, and
anxiety, was unable to withstand the illness which attacked her soon
after she had settled down again to missionary work.

She died on October 24, 1826, aged 37, and the husband whom she loved
so dearly was not at her bedside. He was acting as interpreter to the
Governor-General of India's embassy to the court of Ava, and did not
hear of her illness until she was dead. The baby girl who had been
born in the midst of sad surroundings only lived for a few months after
her mother's death.

[1] Foreigners

SARAH JUDSON, PIONEER WOMAN IN BURMA

The boy or the girl who does not at an early age announce what he or
she intends to be when 'grown up,' must be a somewhat extraordinary
child. The peer's son horrifies his nurse by declaring that he intends
to be an engine-driver when he is 'grown up,' and the postman's wife
hears with not a little amusement that her boy has decided to be Lord
Mayor of London.

These early aspirations are rarely achieved, but there are some notable
instances of children remaining true to their ambition and becoming, in
time, what they had declared they would be.

Sarah Hall, when quite a little child, announced her intention of
becoming a missionary, and a missionary she eventually became. She was
born at Alstead, New Hamps