| Show Lieutenant Grccly and the Grindstone Grind-stone When a little boy not more than ten yaaraold Greely visited an uncle on his farm in Vermont One day the uncle had occasion to use the grindaona which may ba found in every New England door yard and jocosely offered the boy five cents if he would turn the handle for two hours The ofier was accepted and I the little fellow began to turn In less than half an bcur the perepira I lion poured from him in streams fifteen minutes more elapsed and the I tears began to mingle with the sweat ot his brow but he still turned I away manfully Then the uncle told him to Etop that he bad turned enough and could have the five cents without more work But the boy deolined to stop and worked away although crying with fatigue He stuck to that grin ptone until the two hours elapsed and was laid up for some days utttrward Knowing man as I did I do not hesitate to say that he made up his mind to surmount sur-mount the obstacles and bring his party through and that it was his mental superiority that proved ol more value to him than their physical strengtn did 10 toe unfortunate seventeen seven-teen |
