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Jo'io  ■ ^ yftr Jotx Burt tra  born,
ki.fi FfUr Burt 5>jumfyt>d to Boston
V ' - :r ' t •• • • 'Ling
T jtkrt iktf? Kotitr. Burnt Burt
kf tui  .ft *?rt ItsikntJjr killed in
t •> *vk: tor iect TLt traiu cr&tbed
■ k bridge Jt tu winter, and
Mttoly ooid. Of tbe fifteen passen-
• ttt car occupied by Robert
But, but om «wpei. ▲ child, tvi
yet*t o-t, was found warmly wrapped
,1 :•« blanket, uaitjartd, on
r:*t of prophecy and of understand-
log.
Wh«a John Burt was seven years
t'.t lis grandfather brought him to
the eld farmhouse. "With the boy
caiae his nurse and her husband,
w-.'2 Jasper, the latter charged
w.Th Um duties of hired man. Thui
John Burt beean his life on the farm.
When John had mastered his let-
ters and primer he was sent to school
a Hmgham, taking the r^ular course
for fire years. Then a private tutor
came from Boston. Five days in the
week the boy studied under this
young man's direction, and made rap-
id progress. With his stern old fac*
lighted with joy and pride, Peter Burt
would 2:sten to the recitations.
CHAPTER FOUR.
James Blake.
John Burt was fourteen years old
when be first met James Blak*. The
elder Blake had purchased the old
Leonard farm, and so had become the
nearest neighbor of Poter Burt. There
were several children in the Blake
family, but this narrative has concern
only with James, the eldest, a ooy of
John Burt's age.
The two farms were separated by a
creek, which, at a place called the
Willows, w idened to a pool, famed as
a tshing and swimming place. One
Jirc# morning John was seated ou a
log spanning the narrow neck of this
reach of water. He had landed a
baas, when the cracking of twigs and
th  swaying of the underbrush on the
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can always collect tit a tut tn#
smallest and =:ii .iiigx^etxa a n:<
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spools securely ce tW yradaoc a
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if there is aoiM wjc i ice tie u_i,i«
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legs and supports. A trtfi :>tkt«c
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smaller spools mt'se pcKty j. rtnre
frames, especially if pata:e4 m :t x
green. They may be used 11 a lnz~
dred ornamental way*, tier itay be
collected from a doaea i-tf-m.:
sources, and they rre sure u
amusement far ineumerahA*
days.
Ex-Secretary Cariis e 0-c -j WcH.
John t). Carlisle. ei-senat<nr frcsa
Kentucky and e\ secretary of ti#
treasury, is doin* w*U as a lawyer 3
New York cit>. Since talv :.t zj
residence ou Manhattan Island Mr.
Carlisle has Improved greats ;n («rt-
ical condition, his fine aweormirf*
surprising friends who meet ti- ^
the first time in a few years.
For Bible Stk.d«nt*_
If the children slain in Herod's
Slaughter of the Innocents were
buried In sar.d and but the right arm
showing, how could you tell the gtrli
from tho boys?
Thfs has puttied many thevlodass;,
but ths Answer is simple Only haw
were slaughtered. — Woman's htaee
Qwmpanion.