" It was interesting to notice how faces previously
stolid would light up with animation after that, if the preacher
happened to repeat the name of our first parents, and how one would
touch another, whispering with childish joy, "Didn't you hear? He
said Adam."
Such were the women who came to the Seminary for instruction; but
the teachers also went forth to search out the no less besotted
females in the villages; and, as a counterpart to the above, we
present an account of labors among the wild women of Ardishai, a
village twelve miles south-east from Oroomiah.
When Miss Fiske had been in Oroomiah about one year, Mr. Stocking
proposed a visit to Ardishai. So the horses were brought to the
gate, one bearing the tent, another the baskets containing Mr.
Stocking's children, and a third miscellaneous baggage; besides the
saddle horses. The first night, the tent was pitched on one of the
threshing floors of Geog Tapa; but as American ladies were a novelty
in Ardishai, the party there, in order to secure a little quiet, had
to pitch their tent on the flat roof of a house. It was Miss Fiske's
first day in a large village, and she became so exhausted by talking
with the women, that she can never think of that weary Saturday
without a feeling of fatigue.
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