f* for the life of you, donH you do it ! Yoall do
them more hurt than good. Hardship don't hart
boys. It didn't you and I. They are doing fint
rate — making grand calculations ! It's drawing
out what's in 'em. If James Welch had been
put to it as they are, it would have been better for
him, and saved his parents much misery."

Ben siding with Uncle Isaac, the captain relin-
quished his purpose.
Perhaps most of our young readers have seen a
pair of house bellows, — some have not, — stoves
and coal fires having consigned them, for the most
part, to oblivion ; but they were a great institution
once — fi-om the homely kitchen to the highly-
ornamented and gilded parlor ones.
Those boys who have not seen them can ask
their grandmothers, which will save us some de-
tail ; and, as we have so many ^ last things " to say
to you in this volume, it is quite an object.
