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 REDEMPTION. 77 hear or understand you. I know nothing about what you are talking upon. I have been out twenty-one months looking for whales, whales, nothing but whales. I have been ploughing the mighty deep in search of whales, and, sir, I am bound to have a whale. And now, sir, if you could look into my heart, you would see nothing but a whale there." ' That was frank, honest, and true. And shows us that every one has his idol, and if I could look into the hearts of my little readers, what should I see there? In a little girl's heart I should see that idol, self, set up, and every one expected to re- Digitized by Google