Show A moving appeal he was a motherless boy and hi father s only child but some of tl relatives had decided that he should be sent to a boys school 50 miles from home and at last father had agreed to the plan forty eight hours after his boy s de the father received a letter which was although not faultless as an example of spelling so much to the point and so in accord with his own feelings that the plans for the future were speedily readjusted dear father wrote the exile it Is al right here and I 1 m not homesick I 1 but life Is very short and don t you think you d better let us spend some more of it together you affectionate son THOMAS youth s companion |