Captain Horace

breakfast; for Horace sat up very stiffly in his chair, and refused both eg

race?" asked his

boy, blushing; "but I wan

looked at each other acr

have anything nice to eat. Can't they get pies and canned peaches and

their country are willing to make grea

looks, for he somehow felt th

lease tell me what's

uty: that is very nearly what it means. For instance, if your mamma consents to let me go

now, Henry," said Mrs. Cl

bursting into tears, "we could

of parting from his beloved father; but then wouldn't it be a glorious thing to hear him called General Clifford? And i

a general;" and for that little while it would be pleasant for Horace to sit

ill be some years before you can be a soldi

get used

dry bread is only a small part of the soldier's tough times, my boy. Soldiers have to sleep on the hard ground, wi

sack, to learn to be a soldier with. If I have 'tough times'

click her knitting-needles. "Here I was asleep again. Now, if I did keep working in the kitch

g the yarn over the needle with her

me place,' in the trunk-closet or up-attic. Now, Ba

r, when I gets

cold; so I'll lie on the floor in the bathin

bed; and when, at the same time, one's neck is almost put out of joint

say that he employed some of the moon-light hours in studying the workmanship of his

watch told that mischief had been done, his heart gave a quick throb of fri

as usual, and, to his great dismay, c

his sister, coming into his room just as

why didn't yo

you seven ti

pinch me, or shake m

oss, and said, 'Gracie Clifford, let

looking-glass finishing hi

u've parted in the middle! Do you 'spose I'm going to look like a girl? P

s?" exclaimed Grace, as someth

tch, which had fallen

you get t

ans

sn't tick: have you

no a

eak a word when you're spoken to. I never saw such a boy! I'm going down stairs,

it! I was meaning to tell ma! I only wanted to see that little thing

guns, and be soldiers and generals," said Grace, shaki

ips curled

t, Gracie; r

y; "it's my duty! Isn't there a little voice at y

t it don't say what you think it does. It says, 'If y

the whole truth, cost what it might. He knew that his parents could forgive almost anything soo

"scorn it, if it looks ever so white! Put

med to notice it. If he had dared look up, he would hav

ibrary. In the first place, he took to pieces the m

dle with things which belo

into the hollow place in his

r me,

, s

ng this watch: don't you think the little boy wh

d; his face began to tw

e given him to buy fire-crackers. So you see, if he is tr

that it would be no more than just for him

ing to say to

shapes as if they had been made of gutta percha. This was a bad habit of

e ought to give up any of his money. A tear trembled in each of Horace's ey

have something to tell you. I deci

, springing up, eager

y littl

wait on the generals and things! I can wait on you. I can comb your ha

roking Horace's head, "you're such a v

," stammered Horace, the bright flush dying out of his ch

le boy on his knee, and told him how the count

mily," said he, "if Horace never disobeyed his mother; if he did n

round till his father could

words one at a time, as if every one weighed a whole

er, when you injure the property of another, you should always make amen

Horace thought then he should never forget his father's good a

elt that, back of all his faults, there was nobleness in his boyish soul. His father often said, "He will eithe

d and his S

enlisted, everybody looked sad. G

us live, if pa

e always said it was because he "had the

patriotic woman; but she could not trust her voi

one of her friends was dead and buried. The family were to break up housekeeping, and Barbara was very sorry. Now she wou

of it. They will in the cars go off, and whenever ag

mily. His last words to Horace were these: "Always obey y

at the head of his company, looking like, wha

walked about among his school-fellows with quite an air, very proud of being the s

children think a playmate conceited, they call him "stuck up;" but Hoosier children say he has "the big head." No one spok

m go away; though, perhaps, they did not shed so many tears as Grace's little m

family started for the east, there were a great many people "crying their hearts out of t