Part 11 (1/2)

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You can lead a boy to college, but you can't make him think

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PARENTAL AUTHORITY

The boy who does not respect parental authority, will very soon be apt to repudiate all law, both civil and ecclesiastical, human and Divine

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THE BLIND BOY

”O say! What is that thing call'd light, Which I ht?

O, tell your poor blind boy!

You talk of wond'rous things you see, You say the sun shi+nes bright; I feel hiht?

With heavy sighs I often hear You mourn my hapless woe; But sure with patience I can bear A loss I ne'er can know

Then let not what I can not have My cheer of h a poor blind boy”

--_Old Magazine_

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THE ORPHAN BOY'S TALE

Stay, lady, stay, for mercy's sake, And hear a helpless orphan's tale, Ah! sure my looks must pity wake, 'Tis want that makes my cheek so pale

Yet I was once a mother's pride, And ht he died, And I am now an orphan boy

Poor foolish child! how pleased was I When news of Nelson's victory cahted s flaht, She could not bear to see ht, Andand loud, My , closed her ears; ”Rejoice! rejoice!” still cried the crowd; Mythus,” said I, ”While others laugh and shout with joy?”

She kissed h!