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Rh coat to keep me warm like Mr. Bear and Mr. Fox, so if I am to preserve my life until the chilly winds and frosty sleets are past, I must work and place in store something to eat while I live in the bowels of the earth, until the snow shall have melted away and the summer sun returns. Then my dear children, take a lesson from me, and prepare now in the Summer of your life for the Winter of it. Childhood with all its pleasures and irresponsibilities is Summer, but manhood with its great responsibilities is Winter. Your papa and your mama grant all your childish requests, they are laboring day and night to keep you in Sunday and day schools, that when you are grown you may have sufficient knowledge in store to be good and faithful Christians and respectable citizens. Amen.

Now let us hear from Rev. Cony:—

My dear little people, you know I am little and weak like you, only you have your large papas and mamas with their big guns and long swords to protect you. I am little when grown, therefore, still weak and defenseless. so that if I did not use common sense, my whole race would have long ago been destroy-