Robert Bain is fourth sergeant in one of the two cadet companies of the Marion Public School. He was very happy, but also full of blushes, when Mr. Du Rie, the principal of the school, complimented him before all his friends. If every boy who reads of his brave act will make up his mind to keep cool in any panic near him, he will have paid the best possible compliment to Robert Bain.
THE TROLLEY BIKE OF 1900.
BY N. FREDERICK CARRYL.
"A letter, Uncle Tom! From the New Jersey Consolidated Traction Company, as sure as I live. Now we can start any minute."
"Right you are, my boy," said the brisk old gentleman of close on sixty.
Joe heaved a big, contented sigh—not considered a very healthy proceeding, by-the-way—and made a short speech. "Uncle Tom," said he, "it may surprise you a little to hear that father has decided he must stay home and attend strictly to business for at least a month. By that time my vacation will be at an end. Now I have set my heart on this trip, but who can I get for a comrade?"
"Well, Joe, what do you say to the idea of taking your old uncle along?"
"Why, Uncle Tom, you dear man, you are the very next best to father. My! What a jolly time we will have!"
Joe's father and I had arranged it so that he could stay at home, believing, as well he might, the boy was safe in my hands.