AN EXAMPLE FOR THE BOYS.
The following letter explains itself. A boy who gives to the poor the whole proceeds of his farm, and that within a month of Christmas, is worthy of special note. We would like to hear from more such boys.
I have wanted to do something for the freedmen. I am a little boy seven years old. Last spring grandpapa gave me a little plot of ground for my vegetable garden, consisting of corn, pop-corn, beans, summer squashes, Hubbard squashes, cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbages, watermelons. I took most of the care of the garden myself; only when I went on a sail my grandma picked the squashes. I sold the products of my garden to my grandma, and she paid me in money, amounting to a dollar and a half, with which I cheerfully send to you for the freedmen.
Amasa Day Chaffee.
Modus, Conn., Nov. 29, 1877.