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98  MARGARET ANN CRUTCHFIELD.
implored our God to shorten the sufferings of this dear-bought soul; during which time, with a loud voice, she incessantly besought his coming soon.  "Come, come, my dearest Saviour!  hasten, O, hasten, and take me home!  I long, I long to be with thee!  Thou canst not come too soon."
14. This paroxysm of bodily suffering lasted about half an hour, after which she fell, as it were, into a sweet slumber; and during our singing some appropriate verses, her longing soul almost imperceptibly left the emaciated body, and went into the arms of her dearest Saviour.  Much, very much might be said of her truly edifying Christian life, led in the faith of the crucified Son of God.
15. Yet, in obedience to her repeated and most solemn injunctions to her husband, we must stop here, fearing that the little we said, might not be agreeable to the wishes of our departed sister-for these were her words: "I know assuredly that my name is written in heaven.  When I am gone, I pray you say nothing of me, but let my name on earth perish with my body."

AN AGED PEQUOT.  99
THE PEQUOT OF A HUNDRED YEARS.
AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE.
"I AM an aged hemlock: the winds of a hundred winters have whistled through my branches: I am dead at the top," said a venerable Mohawk chieftain.  The ancient Pequot Indian woman, whose brief history is here given, expressed herself in language alike figurative and natural to the Indian race: "I am a withered shrub: I have stood a hundred years: all my leaves are fallen; but water from the river of God still keeps my root alive."  Here was a bright allusion, (wanting in the speech of the Mohawk,) which implied confidence in God.
2. This individual, long known in her neighborhood as the Good Old Ruth, died February 5th, 1833.  The Pequots, her native tribe, were distinguished for cruelty, and hatred of the Christian religion; and she herself, in early life, possessed the same characteristics.  Her memory reached back to the period when the eastern part of Connecticut was full of Mohegans and Pequots, and the Narragansetts were numerous in Rhode Island.
3. Among these tribes, more than half of her life was passed.  She well remembered the en-