Major Impossible (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #9): A Grand Canyon Tale
poof WES WAIT UP WHY THEY DONT LIKE ME QUICK WALTER LET'S HIDE IN HERE HURRY THOSE BULLIES WILL COME AFTER US CAN YOU AT LEAST GIVE HIM HIS MUSTACHE SO WE RECOGNIZE HIM THAT'S BETTER SO I SHOWED THEM BOUNTY HUNTERS WHERE THEM RUNAWAY SLAVES WAS HIDIN AND THEY WHIPPED EM BLOODY DID THEY GIVE YOU ANY MONEY NO BUT THEY SHOULD HAVE THEM RUNAWAYS WAS WORTH PLENTY OF MONEY LET'S GO THEY'RE GONE PAPA'S HORSE JOHN WESLEY YOU HAVE RIPPED YOUR SHIRT NO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE LONG GONE BEFORE COMING OUT FATHER'S HOME WHERE IS FATHER 10
LET YOUR FATHER REST HE'S BEEN ON HORSEBACK FOR THE LAST THREE WEEKS WE WAS IN THE THICKET JUST SOME FARM KIDS THEY TOOK A BOOK I WAS READING AND THREW IT WE WERE IN THE THICKET WHY WERE YOU IN THE THICKET I'LL TALK WITH THE TEACHER HOW DID YOU TEAR YOUR SHIRT WE WERE HIDING FROM MEAN BOYS NO MOTHER HE JUST MAKES IT WORSE WE'VE LIVED HERE FOR YEARS BUT THEY STILL TREAT US LIKE OUTSIDERS FATHER BECAUSE I TELL THEM SLAVERY S EVIL PURE HATEFUL WICKEDNESS IT DOESN'T HELP THAT YOUR FATHER STIRS THEM UP DID YOU BRING BACK ANY NEW BOOKS WHY DOES FATHER MAKE THEM SO MAD WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS THERE IS LIBERTY 2 CORINTHIANS 3:17 YES THE FIFTY SPIRITUAL HOMILIES AND THE GREAT LETTER BY MACARIUS OF EGYPT OH BOY HOMILIES NO IT IS ABOUT THE SOUL ANYTHING ELSE MAYBE A SCIENCE BOOK YOU WILL READ THIS TO YOUR SIBLINGS STUDY IT MACARIUS A MONK THE LIGHT OF THE DESERT THEY CALLED HIM HE WROTE THESE IMPORTANT SPIRITUAL CONCEPTS ANYTHING ELSE THIS IS A TREASURE TROVE IS IT ABOUT EGYPT THIS WILL HELP YOU BECOME A GREAT PREACHER 11
splort THANK YOU FATHER WHO'S THAT POWELL'S FATHER WAS A METHODIST MINISTER WHO TRAVELED FAR AND WIDE PREACHING YOU MUST LIVE UP TO YOUR NAMESAKE THE GREAT JOHN WESLEY JOHN WESLEY WAS THE FOUNDER OF METHODISM A PROTESTANT RELIGION WHY WOULD PEOPLE BE ANGRY WITH HIM FOR PREACHING HE ARGUED AGAINST SLAVERY HE WAS AN ABOLITIONIST THE BONDAGE OF SLAVERY IS AN ABOMINATION THE POWELL FAMILY LIVED FIFTY MILES FROM THE OHIO RIVER THE BORDER BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH GO BACK NORTH YOU DIRTY YANKEE FREEDOM IS OF GOD AND SLAVERY IS OF THE DEVIL THIS CRIME AGAINST GOD AND MAN MUST BE DENOUNCED I THINK IT'S SAFER WHEN FATHER IS AWAY 12
unexplored utah CHAPTER 3 GREEN RIVER STATION WYOMING MAY 11 1869 I CALL TO ORDER THE FIRST OFFICIAL MEETING OF THE COLORADO RIVER EXPLORING EXPEDITION HUZZAH SORRY THAT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD PLACE TO CHEER YAHOO I HAVE CONTRACTS FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T SIGNED YET YEE HAW CLAP CLAP CLAP I EXPECTED MORE CHEERING TOO ANDY BUT BEFORE YOU SIGN LET ME TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO WYOMING HERE WE ARE AT GREEN RIVER STATION WYOMING 6,075 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL cy COLORADO IS OUR DESTINATION RIO VIRGEN ARIZONA ONLY 700 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL AND HERE WE ARE GOING TO FOLLOW THE COLORADO RIVER THROUGH THIS BLANK SPOT MAP IT --AND DISCOVER ITS GEOLOGICAL WONDERS --AND BETWEEN THEM A BLANK SPOT OF A THOUSAND MILES WHAT'S IN THERE SIR NOBODY KNOWS A FEW BRAVE SOULS HAVE LOOKED DOWN INTO THESE CANYONS --BUT NO ONE HAS EVER GONE THROUGH THEM WE WILL BE THE FIRST 13
