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    David the Shepherd Boy
    David the Shepherd Boy
    David the Shepherd Boy
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    David the Shepherd Boy

    By Amy Steedman

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      David the Shepherd Boy - Amy Steedman

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      Title: David the Shepherd Boy

      Author: Amy Steedman

      Release Date: May 16, 2008 [EBook #25486]

      Language: English

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      There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. 1. Sam. xvi. 11.

      3DAVID THE

      SHEPHERD BOY

      By AMY STEEDMAN

      THOMAS NELSON & SONS

      NEW YORK

      4BOOKS IN THIS SERIES

      JOSEPH THE DREAMER

      THE BABE IN THE BULRUSHES

      DAVID THE SHEPHERD BOY

      THE CHILD JESUS

      THE GOOD PHYSICIAN

      THE GOOD SHEPHERD

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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      Up amongst the hills, perched like the nest of a bird on one of the long low ridges, lies the little town of Bethlehem. It was but a small town at the time this story begins, and there was nothing about it to make it at all famous. It lay out of the beaten track, and any one wanting to visit it must needs climb the long winding road that led from the plain beneath, through olive groves and sheepfields, up to the city gate—a steep, difficult road, leading nowhere but to the little town itself.

      It was in these fields on the slope of the hills that David, the shepherd boy of Bethlehem, spent his days watching his father’s flocks. That father, whose name 6 was Jesse, was one of the chief men of the town, and David was the youngest of all his sons.

      There were seven big brothers at home, and

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