Who this great fight did win."
"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why, that I can not tell," said he,
"But 't was a glorious victory."

NOTES.--The Battle of Blenheim, in the "War of the Spanish Succession,"
was fought August 13, 1704, near Blenheim, in Bavaria, between the French
and Bavarians, on one Ride, and an allied army under the great English
general, the Duke of Marlborough, and Eugene, Prince of Savoy, on the
other. The latter won a decisive victory: 10,000 of the defeated army were
killed and wounded, and 13,000 were taken prisoners.

XXI. "I PITY THEM."

1. A poor man once undertook to emigrate from Castine, Me., to Illinois.
When he was attempting to cross a river in New York, his horse broke
through the rotten timbers of the bridge, and was drowned. He had but this
one animal to convey all his property and his family to his new home.

2. His wife and children were almost miraculously saved from sharing the
fate of the horse; but the loss of this poor animal was enough. By its aid
the family, it may be said, had lived and moved; now they were left
helpless in a land of strangers, without the ability to go on or return,
without money or a single friend to whom to appeal. The case was a hard
one.

3. There were a great many who "passed by on the other side." Some even
laughed at the predicament in which the man was placed; but by degrees a
group of people began to collect, all of whom pitied him.

4. Some pitied him a great deal, and some did not pity him very much,
because, they said, he might have known better than to try to cross an
unsafe bridge, and should have made his horse swim the river. Pity,
however, seemed rather to predominate. Some pitied the man, and some the
horse; all pitied the poor, sick mother and her six helpless children.

5. Among this pitying party was a rough son of the West, who knew what it
was to migrate some hundreds of miles over new roads to locate a destitute
family on a prairie. Seeing the man's forlorn situation, and looking
around on the bystanders, he said, "All of you seem to pity these poor
people very much, but I would beg leave to ask each of you how much."

6. "There, stranger," continued he, holding up a ten dollar bill, "there
is the amount of my pity; and if others will do as I do, you may soon get
another pony. God bless you." It is needless to state the effect that this
active charity produced. In a short t