"I? Nothing." "Well, farewell my boy, until we meet again. th your heart at peace. Garoffi went as far as the door; but there pped and turned to look at the little nephew w s following him. All at once he pulled so ect from beneath his cloak, put it in the lit 's hand, saying, hastily, to him, "This is for yo 1 away he went like a flash. The boy carried the object to his uncle. They s tten upon it, "I give you this as a presen ey looked inside, and uttered an exclamation prise. It was the famous album, containing ection of postage stamps, which poor Garoffi 1 ught, the collection about which he was alwa ing and which had cost him so much labor. his treasure, poor lad! It was a part of y life, which he had given the wounded man, hange for his pardon. EDMONDO DE AMICIS -om 66 Cuore." thee for the strengthening hills, ve bright spirit to the rills; peaks soaring up apart, down music on the heart; tops wavering soft and high, their peace against the sky; st farings that have been; fall rain that shuts me in, to my low little roof se of home, secure, aloof. nks for morning's stir and light, the folding hush of night; se high deities that spread -filled chasm overhead; chemistries that yield en fires of the April field; And took the loneliness away; From "Success." AN INDIAN PRINCESS POCAHONTAS was a very beautiful child, and w ed by all the tribe over which her father rul home was in Virginia, and a very happy I led in the sunny woods, with the birds a irrels for her companions. In after years wh went to live far away across the sea, the mem her childhood home seemed the sweetest thing world to her. It brought to her mind the son he birds, the beautiful flowers, the waving tre time before. He could talk to his iles away by putting down words paper and sending it to them. He tle instrument by which he talked and he told the Indians that the , and that the sun chased the nights ually. ver heard of such curious things bedecided that this strange being was than a mere man, and that perhaps wer to bring evil upon them. So all sts and magicians met together and e the prisoner to the great chief ather of Pocahontas. This man was Smith, who had already won much ier. any of men he had sailed from Eng t a pocket compass and showed them how to and also talked to them about the shape of rth, and its motion around the sun. All this surprised the Indians very much. T d never seen a written letter before, and t ought that if Smith was guided through est by means of the compass, it was because uld talk to the stars and the sun. And then, ey not always been taught that the sun came m the east in the morning, and went down ewest at night, never to return? They belie t a new sun came each day to light the wo they listened to these wonderful things with g e, and Powhatan and his council decided that it safe to let such a man live. When Pocahontas heard that Captain Smith be put to death, she felt very sad indeed. Du time that he had been a prisoner in the vill had grown very fond of him, and it seeme |