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Show MADE HIM GOOD AMERICAN Act of Wloe Father That Kept His Boy In tho Path of His Birth and Duty. It is olaimlng rather a great, deal to say that a child's whole future career may dopend upon thc hearing of a story! But, unquestionably, it Ir true. A boy I know, whose parents were obliged to live in England during two of his early yoars from the time he was eight until he was ten said to his father one day: "Am I an Eng-I Eng-I Lishman, an American, or haven't I any country at all?" HIb father, a loyal American, startled at this question, read to the boy "A Man Without a Country," "You are an American he told the boy. "Never forget that!" The boy, now a man, is just about to enter tho United States army. Much of his life has been passed in other J countries, but ho is an American. i "I think I might have become an i Englishman, or a man with no partic- ' ular loyalty to any fing." ha said ro- contly. "had It not been for tho story of 'A Man Without a Country.' which i m.v father read to me when I was a ' little boy in England I didn't under stand all of it, but I understood enough to koep me forever loyal to the land of ray birth, no matter whore . I mifcht happen to be growing up." Elisabeth McCracken in the Homo Progress Magazine. ! |