Copyright, 1891,
By Roberts Brothers.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| A Lost Hero | [Frontispiece] |
| The Express from Columbia | [11] |
| The Enterprise of the Summerville Merchant | [12] |
| In the Group at the Station stood a white Boy | [13] |
| The Boy tested the Halter, and patted the Horse | [15] |
| Stray Goats and Mules gazed expectantly | [17] |
| An old Negro came up | [19] |
| He plodded slowly up the Track | [21] |
| Snapped his Halter, and broke away | [23] |
| He got down on his Hands and Knees and crawled | [24] |
| Birds seemed to sing through the Air | [25] |
| Had the End of the World come? | [27] |
| They ran | [31] |
| The pauper Dog | [32] |
| They were only Cows | [33] |
| Run for 't! Run! | [37] |
| As they came abreast of the second little Station | [41] |
| I sole for Two Thousand Dollars onct | [43] |
| The ragged old Arm that felled it down | [45] |
| The little One climbed like a Monkey upon A Shelf | [47] |
| The old Man seized the Torpedoes | [48] |
| This comforted the Lad incredibly | [49] |
| "I stump ye!" | [53] |
| The strong, black Fist was clinched | [55] |
| He laid one Torpedo on each Rail | [57] |
| Papä! Papä! | [62] |
| A little huddling Figure | [63] |
| The locality where the Train stood was examined thoroughly | [67] |
| Had the curiosity to pick up the Rags | [72] |
| Finis | [74] |
NOTE.
THE materials of heroism are everywhere; each day and all situations are full of them. The power to recognize them and the will to use them make the hero. He who saves life, no matter how obscure, how poor, how ignorant he may be, has a value which can never belong to the spiller of blood; and the crimson glories of war fade before the white honors of peace.
This little story, which was originally contributed to the "Youth's Companion," has sought to teach the young people of America something of the grandeur which waits upon a brave deed, and something of the beauty of supreme self-sacrifice.