Friday's Child Author:Frances Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. " Zachary, I have brought some very nice travels for to-day." " Ah, Master Friday ? " " I have read this part to the Doctor. He liked it very much.... more » It is one of my favoritest travels. Zachary, I am going to begin." " I'm a-listening, sir." "'There is a vale between the mountains which extends nearly four miles ; and some call it the Enchanted Vale, some call it the Vale of Devils, and some the Perilous Vale. In that vale men hearoftentimes great tempests and thunders, and great murmurs and noises, day and night; and a great noise, as it were, of tabors, and nakeres, and trumpets, as though it were of a great feast. This vale is all full of devils, and has been always ; and men say that it is one of the entrances of hell.'" " Meaning no offence, sir, is this here gospel true ?" " I believe so, Zachary. I might ask the Doctor. But it must be true, because it tells where it is, and the men did see it, although they were so very frightened. ' But the good Christians, that are stable in their faith, enter without peril; for they will first shrive them, and mark them with the sign of the Holy Cross, so that the fiends have no power over them. Zachary, it is like Christian in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, in the 'Pilgrim'sProgress," you know, that I read to you a long time ago." " Ay, ay," said Zachary, reassured; " it is sum mat after that pattern. Parson used to call it a Hallegory. Might this be a Hallegory ? " " Oh, no. This is called Travels. I am going on, Zachary. ' And you shall understand that when my fellows and I were in this vale, we were in great thought whether we durst put our bodies in aventure, to go in or not, in the protection of God. So there were with us two worthy men, friars minors of Lom- bardy, who said that if any man would e...« less