MED TO SING THROUGH THE AIR 25
HAD THE END OF THE WORLD COME? 27
THEY RAN 31
THE PAUPER DOG 32
THEY WERE ONLY COWS 33
RUN FOR 'T! RUN! 37
AS THEY CAME ABREAST OF THE SECOND LITTLE STATION 41
I SOLE FOR TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ONCT 43
THE RAGGED OLD ARM THAT FELLED IT DOWN 45
THE LITTLE ONE CLIMBED LIKE A MONKEY UPON A SHELF 47
THE OLD MAN SEIZED THE TORPEDOES 48
THIS COMFORTED THE LAD INCREDIBLY 49
"I STUMP YE!" 53
THE STRONG, BLACK FIST WAS CLINCHED 55
HE LAID ONE TORPEDO ON EACH RAIL 57
PAPAe! PAPAe! 62
A LITTLE HUDDLING FIGURE 63
THE LOCALITY WHERE THE TRAIN STOOD WAS EXAMINED THOROUGHLY 67
HAD THE CURIOSITY TO PICK UP THE RAGS 72
FINIS 74

NOTE.

THE materials of heroism are everywhere; each day and all situations are
full of them. The power to recognize them and the will to use them make
the hero. He who saves life, no matter how obscure, how poor, how
ignorant he may be, has a value which can never belong to the spiller of
blood; and the crimson glories of war fade before the white honors of
peace.

This little story, which was originally contributed to the "Youth's
Companion," has sought to teach the young people of America something of
the grandeur which waits upon a brave deed, and something of the beauty
of supreme self-sacrifice.

E. S. P. W.
H. D. W.

[Illustration]

A LOST HERO.

The express from Columbia was due. It was almost nine o'clock on Tuesday
night, the 31st of August, 1886. It had been a hot day, sultry toward
night, and the loungers at the Summerville station were divided between
pitying and envying their neighbors on the excursion train. In such
weather, home seems either the most intolerable or the most comfortable
plac