———
BY F. E. F., AUTHOR OF “AARON’S ROD,” “PRIZE STORIES,” ETC.
———
CHAPTER I.
I yearn for the future, vague and vast;
And lo! what treasure of glorious things
Giant Futurity sheds from his wings.
M. Tupper.
“Mother, which shall I be—which would you rather have me be—an author or statesman?” said Arthur Harrington, a handsome boy of some twelve years of age, looking up from his Latin exercise to his mother, who sat reading at the same table where her son was studying.
The mother laid down her book, and smiling as she looked in the glowing face of her boy, answered,