"We are sure to win this fight for freedom, Captain?"
"Yes, Tom, we cannot do otherwise."
"Then I have not died in vain in giving my life for my country?"
"No, Tom, you have not."
"Then I have nothing to regret. Good-by, Captain. You have been very good to me."
Dick took the boy's hand and held it till the grip relaxed, when he placed it at his side and spread the flag over the young hero.
Next week's issue will contain "THE LIBERTY BOYS AND CAPTAIN HUCK; or, ROUTING A WICKED LEADER."
A reporter was interviewing Thomas A. Edison. "And you, sir," he said to the inventor, "made the first talking machine?" "No," Mr. Edison replied, "the first one was made long before my time–out of a rib."