Show daniel vestera Vb stera elret plea ahn daniel webster and his brother bekiel were boys on their father farm it new hampshire they greatly annoyed ona year by the ravages of the rib and traps set to catch them eze kid brought the first capture to the cods hods in triumph and wa boy like eager to kill him at once as a punishment for his misdeeds or to make him a prisoner for life in a cage but daniel would consent to neither m tenc eho wanted to set the poor frightened creature free the dia waxed warm and jhc thc boya op to their bathen lie proposed to hold and have the squirrel tried ezakiel appearing for the prosecution daniel for the defense this wag a grand idea the court was organized in tha family bitting room with the father oh the bench ezakiel did his very best ho enlarged upon tho iniquities of squirrel and the necessity for punishment ish ment and supposed he biad coy erol alio llio whole ground but daniel are hia young face lighted with enthusiasm thusia sm and his young heart full of pity for alio helpless creature whose life he was to plead for boy aa he was ho doured out such n licad of eloquent speech on the beauty and worth of life even to a squirrel on the great wrong of imprisonment for an unconscious of lense and on the clearm of freedom that when ho lt down hiis hearers wiped the tears from thear eyes the prosecutor was the first to deliver alie little prisoner and daniel and ezekiel set no more traps |