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1912-08-15 Page 24
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-24- me to go. So we all went and felt very sad all that day. We arrived in Fleckkefjord, fifty miles away, at two o'clock. There we took the boat forty miles. Then we rode in a rig ten miles to Roiseland; where we arrived near eleven o'clock that night. The next morning while at the breakfast table, Ida's brother came and said, "Friends, I have sad news to tell you this morning;- two of Aslag's sons have drowned in the waters of Alaska. And the parents are nearly distracted with grief. The oldest of the two was twenty-two years of age. Eight of them were out fishing; and were all drowned was the story." We all felt this a heavy crush. We went to see the family after breakfast. And found them bitterly weeping and wailing in their great grief. We read a chapter in the bible, and had a time of silence. And Ida knelt in vocal prayer. That seemed to touch every heart in the house. After this several messages were communicated by us to them. They seemed to be a little reconciled. This was very solemn and funeral like; as Ida had foretold to us while sick in Roldal. And there was no corpse. When we broke up and bid them to look to the Lord for help that poor mother held on to Pauline's hand twenty minutes; and would not let her
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-24- me to go. So we all went and felt very sad all that day. We arrived in Fleckkefjord, fifty miles away, at two o'clock. There we took the boat forty miles. Then we rode in a rig ten miles to Roiseland; where we arrived near eleven o'clock that night. The next morning while at the breakfast table, Ida's brother came and said, "Friends, I have sad news to tell you this morning;- two of Aslag's sons have drowned in the waters of Alaska. And the parents are nearly distracted with grief. The oldest of the two was twenty-two years of age. Eight of them were out fishing; and were all drowned was the story." We all felt this a heavy crush. We went to see the family after breakfast. And found them bitterly weeping and wailing in their great grief. We read a chapter in the bible, and had a time of silence. And Ida knelt in vocal prayer. That seemed to touch every heart in the house. After this several messages were communicated by us to them. They seemed to be a little reconciled. This was very solemn and funeral like; as Ida had foretold to us while sick in Roldal. And there was no corpse. When we broke up and bid them to look to the Lord for help that poor mother held on to Pauline's hand twenty minutes; and would not let her
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