w a dark shadow came into her
life and made her unhappy; how when she grew older she
went into a factory and learned to weave, and how in her
spare minutes she taught herself many things, and worked
amongst wild boys; and how she was sent to Africa 1

CHAPTER II

How our heroine sailed away to a golden land of sunshine
across the sea; how she found that under all the beauty there
were terrible things which made life a misery to the
dark-skinned natives; how she began to fight their evil ideas
and ways and to rescue little children from death; how,
after losing all her loved ones, she took a little twin-girl
to her heart, and how she grew strong and calm and brave 22

CHAPTER III

Ma's great adventure: how she went up-river by herself in a
canoe and lived in a forest amongst a savage tribe; how
she fought their terrible customs and saved many lives;
how she built a hut for herself and then a church, and how
she took a band of the wild warriors down to the coast
and got them to be friends with the people who had
always been their sworn enemies 45

CHAPTER IV

Stories of how Ma kept an armed mob at bay and saved the
lives of a number of men and women; how in answer to a
secret warning she tramped a long distance in the dark to
stop a war; how she slept by a camp-fire in the heart of
the forest, and how she became a British Consul and
ruled Okoyong like a Queen 69

CHAPTER V

Ma's great love for children; her rescue of outcast twins
from death; the story of little Susie, the pet of the
household; and something about a new kind of birthday that
came oftener than once a year 90

CHAPTER VI

How the Queen of Okoyong brought a high British official to
talk to the people; how she left her nice home and went
to live in a little shed; how she buried a chief at midnight;
how she took four black girls to Scotland, and afterwards
spent three very lonely years in the forest 105

CHAPTER VII

Tells of a country of mystery and a clever tribe who were
slave-hunters and cannibals, and how they were fought
and defeated by Government soldiers; how Ma went
amongst them, sailing through fairyland, and how she
began to bring them to the feet of Jesus 120

CHAPTER VIII