Life — May 9, 1895 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Cuarrer 1. *Cowarp! Cowardly-calf! Cry-baby !" These were the shouts that greeted Willie Green, as he stood wiping the blood from his lip, which had been cut from a blow given by James Beans, the rich squire’s son, * Why don’t you pitch in and lick him ? “You are bigger'n him.” ** Because my mother told me never to fight,” said Willie. ‘ And, besides, did not the teacher tell us at Sabbath school that it was wicked, and that he who conquered himself was the greatest hero? I mean to be a hero.” Cuarter Il. “Did I not do right, mother ?” asked Willie Green, * You did, my son," as she fondly wrapped two or three of his curls around her worn and wasted hand. ‘* Besides, if you had given away to your temper the squire might have foreclosed the mortgage he holds on our little home and turned us out adrift on the cold, cold world. It isas much as I can do now to meet the 12 per cent interest.” They wept in each other's arms. Cuarrer IIL. asked Bill Jones, the school bully, “Fire.” The cry rang out on the still night air, arousing the sleeping villagers to action. The office of 'Squire Beans was in flames. Strong men threw water on the blazing building with pitchers, pails, tubs and anything that came to hand. And still the flames arose. “My safe! My safe!” shrieked the ‘squire. “There are $11,000,000 worth of securities in it! Am I to be ruined 2" + No use, 'squire,” said one of the men. pounds, and besides, it is red hot.” Cuaprer 1V. “Stand back! If men will not act, let a coward try!” It was the voice of Willie Green, Willie Green, whom his thoughtless “ That there safe weighs a thousand THE ‘Kayser’ Patent Tipped Giloves are The kind that DON’T wear out. Raymond's Vacation Excursions. ALL TRAVELING EXPENSES INCLUDED. schoolmates had called a coward because he had the moral courage to abstain from rude fisticuffs. He rushed through the crowd into the blazing building. In another moment he returned with the great red-hot safe in his arms and dropped into a near-by cistern. The 'squire’s fortune was saved. “« My boy,” said the ’squire, ‘* none of them will call you coward now. James, my son, shake hands with a true hero.” Cuaprer V. Willie Green works for the ‘squire now. He only has to work eighteen hours a day after school and gets $6.a week. The ‘squire has reduced the interest on Mrs. Green's mortgage to 1134 per cent. And even Bill Jones, the school bully, realizes that one can be brave without being a brute, (The End.) —Cincinnati Tribune. THACKERAY once asked one of the men who lets out skates on the Serpentine whether he had ever lost a pair through the omission to exact a depesit, and he replied that he had never done so, except on one occasion, when the circumstances made it almost pardonable. 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