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Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic Year: 1884 (1880s) Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. [from old catalog] Subjects: Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: the miracle when he was sick of the fever. He was very ambitiousto meddle in affairs of state, but his bad name had weakened his influence withEdmund, and it seemed likely to do the same with well-intentioned Edred. Hedesired to create a pub-lic impres-sion againthat he wasa saint. He re-tired to acell andthere spenthis timew o r k i n gvery hardas a smith,and — so thereport went:— in devo-tion. Then thepeople said : How hum-ble and penitent Dunstan is ! He has the back-ache all day, and the leg-acheall night, and he suffers all for the cause of purity and truth. Then Dunstan told the people that the Devil came to tempt him, which, withhis aches for the good cause, made his situation very trying. The Devil, he said, wanted him to lead a life of selfish gratification, but hewould not be tempted to do a thing like that; he never thought of himself, —oh, no, good soul, not he. The people said that Dunstan must have become a very holy man, or theDevil would not appear to him bodily.

Text Appearing After Image: ST. DUNSTAN AND THE DEVIL. 24 ZIGZAG JOURNEYS IN NORTHERN LANDS. One day a great noise was heard issuing from the retreat of this man, andfilling all the air for miles, the like of which was never known before. Thepeople were much astonished. Some of them went to Dunstan to inquire thecause. He told them a story of a miracle more marvellous than any that he hadpreviously done. The Devil came to him, he said, as he was at work at his forge, and temptedhim to lead a life of pleasure. He quickly drew his pincers from the fire, andseized his tormentor by the nose, which put him in such pain that he bellowedso lustily as to shake the hills. The people said that it was the bellowing ofthe Evil One that they had heard. This wonderful story ended to Dunstans liking, for the artful do flourishbriefly sometimes. The boy king Edred was in ill-health, and suffered from a lingering illnessfor years. He felt the need of the counsel of a good man. He said to himself,— There is Dunstan, a man who h

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