Do tell us a story about GRANDFATHER'S CHAIR!" APPENDIX TO PART I.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LIFE OF JOHN ELIOT, BY CONVERS FRANCIS.
MR.

ELIOT had been for some time assiduously employed in learning the Indian language.

To accomplish this, he secured the assistance of one of the natives, who could speak English.

Eliot, at the close of his Indian Grammar, mentions him as "a pregnant-witted young man, who had been a servant in an English house, who pretty well understood his own language, and had a clear pronunciation." He took this Indian into his family, and by constant intercourse with him soon become sufficiently conversant with the vocabulary and construction of the language to translate the ten commandments, the Lord's prayer, and several passages of Scripture, besides composing exhortations and prayers.
Mr.Eliot must have found his task anything but easy or inviting.

He was to learn a dialect, in which he could be assisted by no affinity with the languages he already knew.