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Show A iff " -' to 'Ml iron. Ooeot the rtnuirut ces of aoinnam-butlam aoinnam-butlam wtnrrl win flfu-eri j.itROn an Oxford e'inly v(Ilaf. Till boy .- , of the etnrywa ntxl to (ha oldeUof a large family. A iwt much wa to be tna1e on the farm In the winter, and other work 1 not eaally obtained p a small place, ttte father and the gldc.t ou had gone early In the full tortdl.tatit aiato where laborer wetvacareeand latmrwetl pUL Theauter vision of the firm fell upon mor .l, and acottwlenlloullttleatewardbew.it. After great basket of dried leave, gathered amid much aiwrt In the wood, hid heapel up the great bin, aud the hoitthad Imn snugly tucknl up In evergreen bough;, Nid cut mid hauled the grrat cord woo. I stick lntolhe yard for "worklngup." One night l. had Irf-enloo tlml to attend to aawlog and aplluiug.and he wni lo b.il worrying about It. Nut that tlieTj wo any real need, for tho ptaxx-illke woiiIhnl wn dotly llneil on Ihree aldwlth carefully lltml wood; only be dltliktd to have one day' work run into the next. About midnight Ntd mother, bearing uaaeeoimtable sound below, stole into I.ed'i room and found he wn net I here. (Ireatly alarmed, ahe continued her search until she reached the wiHnldiel. "Xnl. Ne-lV'tlw railed, but recehml no repont. Wamlerlngly the mother n pniached amtoat neareiioughtotouohhlm, atlHheiwllt.otaw.ml. (llanelng again nt hi in h avr the boy' eye weru abut, and, baring been nm-wbat nm-wbat uel to hi wiilklnglu hleeti, thonj-bt thti would nee what Xedwotilddo. Can--fully he placfdlkecord wood atlekonlh MHlior-, took down Iboavt and M-mally, with both ee eloaetl In lep, aawnl wckmI, and waanhouttotake ilown the at when hi mother thought It time lo awaken him, Inltou Journal. |