There may once in ten or twenty years be an
exception to tho rule, but it is only tin ex
ception. Benjamin West’s mother kissed
him after she had seen his first wonderful
sketch with the pencil. Benjamin "West
afterward said. “That kiss made me a
painter.”
A young man received a furlough to re
turn from the army to his father's house.
Afterward he took the furlough back to tho
oirtcer. saying, “I would like to postpone my
visit for two weeks.” At the end of the
two weeks he came and got the furlough.
