cle Frank
really takes his readers for a set of little dunces.

Well, then, my shrewd little boy, what does the story teach?

"Why it teaches that the Peddler's Boy set out to be somebody, and he
was somebody."

Very well. Anything else, little girl? I must catechise you a little.
What do you learn from it?

"That anybody can do anything he sets out to do, and that he can be
anything he sets out to be."

Bravo! that is pretty well, only a little too strong. And what else?
Why didn't Frederick get along in the world as well as Samuel?

"Because he was a coward."

I'm not sure but you are half right. It seems hard to call that poor,
unfortunate youth a coward. But I do honestly think that he would have
done well enough, if he had only scraped together a few more grains of
courage. Look at that affair of the glass of gin. It was courage that
he wanted there--courage to do right, no matter what his old playmate
might say or think. He was afraid to offend the boy. He had more fear
of the boy, it would appear, than he had of God. What that coarse,
profane boy said, had more weight with him than the words which his
conscience uttered. It was _principle_, after all, that he lacked. And
so he was led away, and lost.

"Uncle Frank, I shall never forget what one glass will do."

I hope you never will; and I hope you will remember, too, as long as
you live, that the success of the Peddler's Boy was owing quite as
much to his honesty, and temperance, and faithfulness, and
religion--for he was a sincere and devoted Christian--as to his
ambition, and industry, and energy, and resolution.

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_Woodworth's Juvenile Works._

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.

PUBLISH THE FOLLOWING JUVENILE WORKS,

By Francis C. Woodworth,

EDITOR OF "WOODWORTH'S YOUTH'S CABINET," AUTHOR OF "THE
WILLOW LANE BUDGET," "THE STRAWBERRY GIRL," "THE MILLER OF
OUR VILLAGE," "THEODORE THINKER'S TALES," ETC., ETC.

UNCLE FRANK'S BOYS' AND GIRLS' LIBRARY.

A Beautiful Series, comprising six volumes., square 12mo., with eight
Tinted Engravings in each volume. The following are their titles
respectively:

I. THE PEDDLER'S BOY, or I'll Be Somebody.
II. THE DIVING BELL, or Pearls to be Sought For
III. THE POOR ORGAN-GRINDER, and other stories.
IV. LOSS AND GAIN, or Susy Lee's Motto.
V. MIKE MARBLE; His Crotchets and Oddities.
VI. THE WONDERFUL LETTER-BAG OF KIT CURIOUS.

"Of those who ha