who does not
admire real courage."

"I don't know what you mean, Kate, about `the same sort of courage.'
Courage is courage, I suppose, pretty much the same in everybody who has
it."

"I was thinking of moral courage," replied the other quietly; "and that
often goes with presence of mind."

"Moral courage! moral courage! I don't understand you," said her
brother impatiently. "What do you mean by moral courage?"

"Well, dear brother, I don't want to vex you; I was only replying to
your question. I admire natural courage, however it is shown, but I
admire moral courage most."

"Well, but you have not told me what you mean by moral courage."

"I will try and explain myself then. Moral courage, as I understand it,
is shown when a person has the bravery and strength of character to act
from principle, when doing so may subject him, and he knows it, to
misunderstanding, misrepresentation, opposition, ridicule, or
persecution."

The squire was silent for a moment, and fidgeted on his chair. Amos
coloured and cast down his eyes; while his brother looked up at his aunt
with an expression on his face of mingled annoyance and defiance. Then
Mr Huntingdon asked, "Well, but what's to hinder a person having both
what I should call old-fashioned courage and your moral courage at the
same time?"

"Nothing to hinder it, necessarily," replied Miss Huntingdon. "Very
commonly, however, they do not go together; or perhaps I ought rather to
say, that while persons who have moral courage often have natural
courage too, a great many persons who have natural courage have no moral
courage."

"You mean, aunt, I suppose," said her nephew Walter, rather
sarcastically, "that the one's all `dash' and the other all `duty.'"

"Something of the kind, Walter," replied his aunt. "The one acts upon a
sudden impulse, or on the spur of the moment, or from natural spirit;
the other acts steadily, and from deliberate conviction."

"Can you give us an example, aunt?" asked the boy, but now with more of
respect and less of irritation in his manner.

"Yes, I can," she replied; "and I will do so if you like, and my example
shall be that of one who combined both natural and moral courage. My
moral hero is Christopher Columbus."

"A regular brick of a man, I allow; but, dear aunt, pray go on."

"Well, then, I have always had a special admiration for Columbus because
of his noble and unwavering moral courage. Just think of what he had to