who had been our Minister in Holland, and he took the
paper to him to translate.

When Pitt was thus informed of the defeat of our ally, his grief was
unbounded, and though a few days later he heard of the victory of
Trafalgar, yet this was overshadowed later on by the French victory of
Austerlitz, a disappointment which left Pitt a broken man.

His last public speech was at the Lord Mayor's banquet after the battle
of Trafalgar, when the crowd, carried away with the victory, took the
horses out of Pitt's carriage and drew him along in triumph to the
Mansion House.

The Lord Mayor proposed Pitt's health and hailed him as the 'Saviour of
Europe,' but Pitt in his answer made use of the following memorable
words: 'I thank you for the honour you have done me; but England is not
to be saved by a single man. England has saved herself by her exertions,
and will, I trust, save Europe by her example.'

Pitt had now but a few more weeks to live. He died on January 23rd,
1806, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day when he first took his
seat in Parliament, and his death was undoubtedly hastened by his
distress at the state of affairs between France and England.

[Illustration: "The crowd drew him along in triumph."]

He was awarded a public funeral, and on one of the monuments erected to
his memory it is recorded that 'having for twenty years dispensed the
favours of the Crown, yet he ever lived simply and died poor.'

[Illustration]

A BRAVE LAD.

It was Saturday afternoon when the boys of Wedderburn School went off as
usual to swim their boats on a beautiful lake, only a quarter of a mile
away. Fred Langton had a new boat, a regular beauty, which his
grandfather had sent to him as a birthday present, and it must be
admitted that many admiring eyes were directed to this boat, for it was
a larger and better-constructed one than any of the others, and each boy
was of course, anxious that his own boat should win the race. But
although all the boys admired Fred's boat, and wished that they could
have had one as good, still they felt no grudge towards Fred himself,
for he was a general favourite in the school, being kind-hearted,
unselfish, always willing to lend anything that he had to his
companions, and never known to tell tales, or to do a mean action of any
kind.

'I tell you,' said Bill Cowan to his own particular chum, Joe Morris,
'that boat of Fred's will beat ours all hollow! I wish I had one as
good!'