away, among the canals and dykes of Holland; for there she was to go and reside with one of her cousins. But if she remained in France, she might be forced to forsake the faith of her parents, and she must fly from anger.

Some faithful Huguenots, who dressed in woman's clothes to avoid detection, helped the pour refugees to make their escape. These good men, who were called night-walkers, took charge of Susannah and her cousin, who had a little babe with her. They got away from Sedan, and silently stole past the watch posts and guard of the King in the darkness of the night, and were well on there way to the seaport, from which they expected to sail for Holland, when Susannah's cousin stumbled on some rocks in a stream they were crossing. Her babe was awakened and began to cry. This aroused some soldiers stationed near- by; these men captured the frightened refugees, and took them off to prison.

Moses Rochette, Susannah's father, was allowed to take her back to Sedan, where she remained until her two older sisters succeeded in escaping to Holland. Here they found a home in Amsterdam, where they were kindly received by Christian friends, who belonged to what is known in America as the Dutch Reformed Church. After they were peacefully settled, her sisters became very anxious about Susannah, and wrote to their father to send her to them at Amsterdam. But fearing that their letter might be intercepted and read by enemies, they wrote their father to send them the "Little Night Cap" they had left behind when they left Sedan.

After various unsuccessful efforts to send her away, what do you think her father did? He had his little girl put in a hogshead, then the head of it was hooped on, and marked as contining goods. The barrel was intrusted to a friendly sea captain, who had the hogshead placed on board his ship. After they had sailed, and they were safely past the watchful guards who were posted on vessels in the harbor, the hogshead was opened, and Susannah was lifted out of the narrow, dark chamber. God preserved her and brought her safely to Amsterdam, where her sisters received her with great joy.

For some years these three sisters lived in Holland, where you may well suppose they appreciated the privileges of a free government and the right to worship God in a scriptural manner. At the same time, they had to deny themselves many comforts they had enjoyed in France. Amsterdam was crowded with their countrymen, who, like them, had fled from cruel oppression. The generous Hollanders were very liberal to the suffering refugees, but their food was often of the coarsest kind.

Upon the visit which Moses Rochette once contrived to make his daughterrs, he found them eating the cheapest black bread in the country. He pleasantly remarked "If I were choosing a stone, I would take the whitest." Thus they lived for years in the exercise of great self-denial, rather than renounce their faith; but God gave them grace to endure for conscience's sake. One of them at least was to become the head of a long line of godly Presbyterians in a western land, and he was fitting her for great responsibilities. The two elder sisters married and moved to the West Indies. When grown, Susannah also married. Her husband, Abraham Micheaux, was a good, industrious man who was also a Huguenot refugee.

They remained in Holland for some years, and by their combined industry, acquired a sum of money sufficient to remove to America. They then embraced an offer made to the Huguenot refugees by King William, of

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