All in a garden fair; the simple story of three boys ... - University Library

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ALL L\ A GARDEN FAIR.
and read nothing but EnglL^^h, and principally
English poetry.
lie observed that the boy would go away
by himself into the Forest, book in hand. He
followed him and saw him, alone as he thought,
reading aloud and declaiming. He began to
wonder what, if anything, would come of it.
And he congratulated himself on his own teach-
in o", because in one thing he was successful
he had made both boys ambitious.
If you consider, you will find that every
Frenchman knows, what few EngHshmen ever
learn, tliat what one man has done another
can do. He therefore respects himself as much
as he respects the great men of history. The
magnanimity of Scipio, the heroism of Horatius,
the wisdom of Cato, the eloquence of Demos-
thenes, the genius of Hannibal—all these quali-
ties may, he thinks, be united in himself. These
boys had learned the same lesson. They believed
in themselves.
The time passed by. While it improved
the appearance of the young, it played tricks, as