2 DECEMBER 1876, Page 14

A LITTLE HERO.

[TO TRH EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

may amuse you or Mr. Jenkins to know that a day or two ago I told the story of that plucky little boy in Nova Scotia to a class of small children in a village-school in Devonshire, but stopped short when I had told them how the two boys were saved, and then asked, " What do you suppose happened next?" With one voice they all answered, " His mother beat him for getting wet ;" and one voice added, " And he lost his fishing-rod." One touch of nature makers Nova Scotia and Devonshire kin.—