Jes' a wishin', thue and thue you, that you on'y was a man.

Yet here I am this minute, even forty, to a day,

And fergittin' all that's in it, wishin' jes the other way!"

I wonder if our Bill will "wish the other way" when he is a man? Indeed, I wonder if he will ever BE a man. If we could only count on that, Bill's school would not be our problem.


PLAY AS A TRAINING IN APPLICATION.


Never yet was a boy who dreamed of ice-cream sundaes while playing ball.