d "aim high," for your life, always. And, Sam,' sais he,
'I've seed a great deal of the world, all mili_tary_ men do. 'I was to
Bunker's Hill durin' the engagement, and I saw Washington the day he was
made President, and in course must know more nor most men of my age;
and I'll give you another bit of advice, "Aim high" in life, and if you
don't hit the bull's eye, you'll hit the "fust circles," and that ain't
a bad shot nother.'

"'Father,' sais I, 'I guess I've seed more of the world than you have,
arter all.'

"'How so, Sam?' sais he.

"'Why,' sais I, 'father, you've only been to Bunker's Hill, and that's
nothin'; no part of it ain't too steep to plough; it's only a sizeable
hillock, arter all. But I've been to the Notch on the White Mountain,
so high up, that the snow don't melt there, and seed five States all to
once, and half way over to England, and then I've seed Jim Crow dance.
So there now?' He jist up with the flat of his hand, and gave me a wipe
with it on the side of my face, that knocked me over; and as I fell, he
lent me a kick on my musn't-mention-it, that sent me a rod or so afore I
took ground on all fours.

"'Take that, you young scoundrel!' said he, 'and larn to speak
respectful next time to an old man, a mili_tary_ man, and your father,
too.'

"It hurt me properly, you may depend. 'Why,' sais I, as I picked myself
up, 'didn't you tell me to "aim high," father? So I thought I'd do it,
and beat your brag, that's all.'

"Truth is, Squire, I never could let a joke pass all my life, without
havin' a lark with it. I was fond of one, ever since I was knee high to
a goose, or could recollect any thin' amost; I have got into a horrid
sight of scrapes by 'em, that's a fact. I never forgot that lesson
though, it was kicked into me: and lessons that are larnt on the right
eend, ain't never forgot amost. I _have_ "aimed high" ever since, and
see where I be now. Here I am an Attache, made out of a wooden clock
pedlar. Tell you what, I shall be "embassador" yet, made out of nothin'
but an "Attache," and I'll be President of our great Republic, and
almighty nation in the eend, made out of an embassador, see if I don't.
That comes of "aimin' high." What do you call that water near your
coach-house?"

"A pond."

"Is there any brook runnin' in, or any stream runnin' out?"

"No."

"Well, that's the difference between a lake and a pond. Now, set that
down for a traveller's fact. Now, where do you go to fis