Show A BRAVE B BOY Y A of young men man were standing on one To tossing suing lent wt april on tho the bank backai ol of the iho afar winch flown by the ibo quaint old swim swift town of borno barna 1 here nu an joba johann lea the th bakers eon bon and frits frill bund to this wood carver and half bait a dozen illeen others with willi i their and sweethearts iund a aft amual was loud mouthed and voluble soluble it ito talked with oue eye on cht girls I 1 to a men the affect 1 alit I bat do you say my to a race boax bo there I 1 ii johann with his bis big bg muscle 1 can outrun or throw you in five loid laid leid nome no me ci 1 throw threw off nu bin coit and win anus beaten in ill both race rise and bretie ho wo we a big looking fellow ellow and grow grew red with anger jf it you want to look well I 1 in Jeann elitt B s ac h ho 0 it is nicholas vo ae on n albo should uld throw not me inc mio ho think moro more of his bli finger than of your holle brag gat body annd won WOK enraged everybody tow raw this plainly I 1 ho a looked at jeannette bt anding ili I 1 alic ll 11 other her gran liko like a madea little rose among haunting kahlias dahlias nicho yom VOM wali an edving ailt etli his hia dug on oil tho the other wide ido of the iho told field ile ha was waif a quiet under kizea f fellow tho the son ol of the schoolmaster throw voss bosn I 1 could no do it with ono hand no credit in that the follow LM no DO more sr greneth eneth theft thau a gyl g rl raring over but boo booke I 1 ajl put him to a tet teat that shame him bam boball see the stuff tho the baby is id mado made of ilor hoy vou voss I 1 he shouted nicholas come came over smiling but coloring m little itule as aa be pawed passed the girls lie ile item a lad and adt ft lac his bin arms and legit heavy and to ia tho the way A ay whenever is a woman looked at him como come pirla girls I 1 cried blind band the girl drew drair nearer sly bay but 46 tores a quention of oc courage coar to bo be act tied lied laid want roo me to lo try a throw with vow vann but it bo be lair fair for I 1 could it 1 I g him with one finger arid and blow him or for chrit matter roat tr voss color colon ho he played nervously with the dog dopa a call collir ar lie io knew etwas it wu truo true that ho be could riot not compete coin peK x v ith bund in ia a trial of but it was waa hard to he be told it before little jeannette too tt but somo something thing voss vc ss can do as B well on I 1 V 11 abat W be t is f it iff said aid nicholas eagerly you can swim come jump into tho the river rive r yonder nith me and cco which of US ui can reach tho the other chere the girls looked at the river it WM mouta with ath the sann flo flood olit ji and filled with great lumps ot of see ice which crunched and tore each other as 09 they hey went vent rushing molting by asa ab b that would bo be a bravo deed I 1 they ail lookin look at bund jena nebo betic lookia nort flail buruca A tany sy wiio wife a an fanua no der M ls il done bund and 0 mud the other hida throb theres no cost cowardice ardice in baud ima tain I 1 bund tore off his noellen jacket and bookal Ito olit birne rif aud and h inu llo ito was oot flat sorry that tho the girls should a face his biond client chest anti embroidered bra braces OL como come little one off willi ald your coati youre a swimmer and jeannette ti is looking 1 under his hia breath with an alim faull in lna bin co nicholas Nic holan looked at the iho lads ads is Hai toting tEng and RL nl tho the excited silly girls and aad then at tho the myrter icy nr ile II 11 did not dot brunt molook to look at jeannette in ho he bad often alwarn the aar at very cry point palo t but LIB ilia icings were it fecak cak llo ila could not bear the tet exposure to TIT uv g e i into n t 0 t this n hood 0 0 d aboud woud bo cerlian illner p perhaps c r b t p q de death a t h anil for no pur a om but to gratify tho the pride ot of a iulo die follow fellow I 1 come onla come I 1 craca blind affail ell eh 1 I i lie bo lids lade and girls looked at V unit I 1 can n Jeanv olics ecca ed fixed kunou cuno jc on 0 n him bini I 1 am not going to swim bo be said it if lie lia li is nl it 11 out in is A sin dent joe joc ular lar voice lio lie have bavo carried the day but he was wai painfully conscious that they all 11 thought him bull a covard canard no was a at ken u alito llito lad ind and it cut him bim to tho the quick AT afraid r aid aar afriat ai I 1 1 lauglin a dont bund inso ino le scully tit 1 ell yos voa I 1 won wanted ted t to do a you on a good turn and lot let tho the girta girls it 1100 co that you on had ilia making of oc a 4 man in yo you IL but tit no matter turning awny cant con te a nept faunal bounly oa A pity lie bo could not wear cowna an and bonnot lon borl not ho he raid mid to M louil on t chou for vom voa to 0 iscar bear vows vow anoy an ay and ant hastily baji tily down ill the a road llo to wait bitter anti andr and not go home bonio to bli old father in ili that mood llo lie went to tile tho bear pits N sot at ody knows that beara anro a at rort A u of f an I 1 to 0 tho the lornce B aws end aud nicholas like his nolab bors took a keen delight in watching tho the greit great beasts lit fit their pita pas iut but ho he had no pride in them now in fact UK t though iio a leaned oscr the barm unit and looked with the croford he bo did not nob 0 them at nil all there aro era many string era there that diy daiy principally engleh trav travellers ellers and area Amori f eans their c children h e u herd era climbing over tho the ledge of t abo h 0 eldri pit t a M no berreo r hildren dared to do kt tako take care cral cried a vork ork man they aro are cereo me 0 tem down tb glicr ere an englina officer fell foll in in in lit 4 finuff and bo fought for his b life t abat ha at b bag g follow killed him 0 aab I 1 sea hu his red caca tile tho murder lab or I 1 c ad a woman all the people stretched their necks to lo look abaro he lay blinking up at them and aa a stupid nursemaid with a child in b bee e r arms stood on tiptoe to 10 loan an further over tho ebora vaa 77 a push a acres 11 tho child I 1 ach gott I 1 it i RODO t tho the crowd surged awl the birner yom was waa almost upon its ita edge cdo bior a moment thor ebora vias ua a silence liko like death as aa paolo looked jtb akio eyes cyc in tile darkness below thon then bey aw W tho the MAN hul whito hems heap close clos to the cfall of alie pit toof to of the niall cr bears drw saiD at it curiously tho the enter that had bad lulled killed the was iron slowly gathering 1 I n g up his fore forelegs legs find aad dragging drag t toward it the titre re WAS scarcely a sound in ia the crow crovi a men pew grew pilo and turned tamed rick mck A comin anbo A ho bad never seen een tho the child before full in III a dead faint on the ground but ila it mother stood ire still le irging over the pit her handa bold out to it there camo came a u wild ild cry front from tho crowd ano A amna no had jumped into the abo pit tho beatr turned glared at the intruder with sudden fury and then rushed upon him bull ile he dealt I 1 ft blow straight ilia iho eyes cye but it fil liko like a oather upon a alone atall all n ile leapt over him bin I 1 the others ottom aro coining on oil lt huu I 1 I 1 ach A bat blows I 1 well moki 1 again acain the but he bo can do nothing ito ho will bo be torn to pis I 1 1 oh ob tho the poor boy I 1 11 im the iho boar bear ban bai torn lu bin flesh I 1 1 ila bb ban tha cho child 1 ho in has baa tho the child ob I 1 11 I 1 A ladder I 1 alandar Alad dar 1 but thore here A WM wen no an ladder to bo be found not nor of any kind tile tho roam mean of people leaned over praying pru ying shouting hanun isdo the tru cula 6 ant on bolow below an aa finont AS aa tho the gerava 1 ibo I be boy and pals u pushed to tho the wall the child lifted b high A anlis in alii a arms air I 1 tio he savage brutes burrou d dai birn tenia A zv 0 ot of a tren in tha abe bautro of too pit there for ilia bari to 10 climb upon apon ho it nith hh ye Ca fathered bin nod then with a mighty bound bo be touched reached it and began to climb the bears bean foils foil s ca to the tool foot ol of the trunk A ropo rope I 1 A rope ropa A the ropo rope was brought find and flung toward Is him 1121 ho to hoji has it lie ile will in to lo it about lu is faint I 1 yo no jg 0 in child ho be tie lic I 1 he 1 vill t ll 11 onva tl it cret ant i ilo a the cisi child bland and watched it 6 hubp our across IQ a safety when they threw adru tho the ropo again baui ho he did dot catch balch it I 1 ho a was iod role ing at ilia mother wit alin n they put puff hot baby in hof bet arms hon ban lio be had bad taken the ropo rope and tied it about liin a hundred falcon french boats wore ready to t help pun pull liim him tu in A As he auroia tho the cli clingain nain going gain lak half way to the bottom of tho the pit the bear caught 0 nt t him but bat its lt hold sla slipped and the f foil it beck with a growl ro I 1 wait great shouting abon abc led lad atoo blood d on tho the gross la as fety everybody talked d at once to io bin bid beig neighbor abhor gitl be thanked I 1 1 11 6 that in IH a brave fellow 11 Yb a is be it is john vow voss the a bo boy y 11 11 loro hans Is he bo I 1 Z hut nicholas had dut appeared in the conf confusion union fusion nothing clao cho WM talked of the next mt day in beruo berue la in the flops and aad kit kitchesn cheuN at the iho balls in the great houses even 1 in tho the council Cou ucil tho the story atory was told rod thin tail tad WM was spoken of with protect ind and kiu kin docu at the then tre somebody called for ft a climor for Is lam ol 01 and thou abo whole bole house row rose with tho the lj 1 ItI mothers oLben huil their babies closer to their breasts that abight and nith tears tear prayed god to bless bun meanwhile Nic ic bolis livins lay in lis bis cot tended by hu his old mother another and lattice ilia in acey were sorely torn but bot he bo WM was vier ryva mm harpy ca lie was at home in the a messenger from the council knocked at tho the door aud and left an aa off loust do it wan ft a deed convey ing to nicholas vow voss a bourn and casturo land it ir the vicinity ity of tho the town ito ifo put it into his fathers fath wrinkled handa 41 aou father you aro are sure euro of A homo home for you nod and mother ho he said ho to fell soon after that abod when he b awoke the run won WM setting aud and shone on the bed and ito happy old people were wat watching clung hira him A few days piter liter hw his fathel put a little gone cilto into hr his hands baad T tk iwic k qt at this thia mt for son on I 1 never did I 1 hulk A IQ im or of MIDO V anut reato once honor 11 it was vas tile gold biedul ot of the humana of only to the bravest aud and here raid mid Us lf mother I 1 is a isu bunch rich of violets u inch little JeAn jeannetto cEtto loft for farou oil eyes cyc baione as aa hg he looked at the i but the 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