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 time at home, and at a great place called school, which gives all of its time to carrying on the work that is begun in the home.

In both home and school the greatest thing of all that a boy or girl learns, is to love and to help other people. So far as his body is concerned, a boy doesn't differ so very much from animals lower than himself. He differs most of all in his power to reason, and to think and to care for the happiness of others. He has a sense of right and wrong, of honor, of justice, of unselfishness, of fair play, of pity. These are the social and moral powers that, alone, make human beings far above all the other animals.

But these fine feelings, too, began far back with the first animals that cared for their babies. Long before Mother Nature got up to human beings, she made ants and bees live and work in colonies, and birds care tenderly for their nestlings.

What, do you suppose, was the very first animal that carried her helpless babies about with her, and fed them in some strange way?