Show A young hero A little boy in in holland was returning one night from a village to which hu he had bad been sent by his father on an errand when he noticed the water trickling through a narrow opening in in the dike he stopped and thought what the conse would be if the hole was not closed he knew for he bad often heard his father tell the sad disasters which happened from such small beginnings how in in a few hours the opening would become bigger and bigger and let in in the mighty mass of waters pressing on the d dike ike until the whole defence being washed away the rolling dashing anon angry waters would sweep on to the next village destroying life and proper property and everything ever thing in in its way should he run home and alarm the villagers it would be dark before they could arrive and the hole might even ev en then be so large as to defy all a I 1 I 1 attempts to close it prompted by these thoughts he seated himself on th the e bank of the canal stopped the opening with his hand band and patiently awaited aai ted the approach of some ome villager il lager but no one came hour after hour rolled by yet sat there the heroic boy in in cold and darkness shivering wet and tired but stoutly pressing his bis band against the dangerous breach all night h he e stayed at his post at last the morning broke A clergyman walkill wal walking kill up the canal heard a can and looked around to see where it came from why are you there my child hs he asked seeing the boy and surprised sur prized at his strange strang position 1 I am keeping V the water back sir sir and saving the village from being bein drowned answered the child with lips so benumbed with cold that lie he could scarcely speak the astonished toni shed minister relieved the boy the dike was as closed and the danger which threatened hundreds of lues lives was nas presented |