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Show Great Men As Hoys. Every ono knows how, when Sir Walter Wal-ter Scott was a boy, the future novelist was lost during a thunderstorm, and found by tho alarmed searchers lying on bis back on the hillside looking at the lightning, clapping bis bands at each flash and exclaiming, "Bonnie! bonnie!" But a story of the same kind, with Schiller, the Gentian poet, as the hero, is not so well known. One day, while a very small boy, a severe thunderstorm came on; the boy was missed and could nowhere be found. The whole household house-hold searched for him, but it was not until the storm was pfist that bo Was seen descending from the top of a high lime tree near the house. To the inquiries in-quiries of his father as to his motives he replied: ''I only wished to see where all the fire came from."New York Ledger. |