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Show CHILD EVINCED REAL HEROISM Pathetically Brave in Hour Thai Brings Terror to Us All. A pathetic story of a child's heroism is told by a Dublin gentleman. Re cently he proposed to drive with his wife to the beautiful Glasnevin cemetery. ceme-tery. Calling his son, a bright little boy, some four years old, he told hirr to get ready to accompany them. The child's countenance fell and the fathei said: "Don't you want to go, Willie?" The li'.tle lip quivered, but the chile answered, "Yes, papa, if you wish." The child was strangely silent dur ing the drive, and when the carriage drove up to the entrance he clung tc his mother's side and looked up in her face with pathetic wistfulness. The party alighted and walked among the graves and along the tree shadowed avenues, looking at the in scriptions on the last resting-places ol the dwellers in the beautiful city ol the dead. After an hour or so thus spent, they returned to the carriage, and the father lifted his little son tc his seat. The child looked surprised drew a breath of relief and asked: "Why, am I going back with you?" "Of course you are: why not?" "I thought when they took little boys to the cemetery they left then there," said the child. Many a man dct-s not show the her I oism in the face of death that this i child evinced in what, to him. had evidently- been a summons to leave I the world. |
