Being which was my guide by
itself to me, Isaiah 54:7, "For a small
gather thee. Thus the Lord carried me along from one
this precious promise, and many others.
o long?
1. How did the Indians try to drive the settlers out of the house after they had been shooting at it for so
2. Even though twenty-four settlers made it out alive into captivity, who was killed on the way out of the
house?
3. How long had they been wandering through the wilderness before Mary's daughter died? Why did she die
4. How did Mary feel about Indian food at the beginning of her captivity?
5. For what did Mary's mistress say she would break Mary's face?
6. What did Mary find to do to occupy her time?
7. How was she rewarded for her occupation?
8. How do you think Mary gained strength to endure her captivity?

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more. until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student in the johnstown academy with a class of boys. though i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages, yet, in our plays, all the girls and boys mingled freely together. in running races, sliding downhill, and snowballing, we made no [division] of gender. true, the boys would carry the school books and pull the sleighs up hill for their favorite girls, but equality was the general basis of our school relations. i dare say the boys did not make their snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash their faces with the same [forcefulness] as they did each other's, but there was no public evidence of [favoritism]. which detail supports the central idea that stanton feels females and males were generally treated equally at johnstown academy? until i was sixteen years old, i was a faithful student . . i was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics . . [t]here was no public evidence of [favoritism]. true, the boys would carry the school books . .