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 ONLY A FARM BOY

To the lad who likes a story of country life, full of fun and excitement, we feel safe in recommending Mr. Webster's story, "Only a Farm Boy; or, Dan Hardy's Rise in Life." Dan was a poor boy, living with a miserly farmer who gave him no wages and treated him shamefully. One night the lad was sent on an errand to a distant village, and returning by moonlight, saw some men acting in a mysterious fashion in the woods. A robbery had been committed, and through a curious chain of circumstances, some thought poor Dan was guilty. But he had one friend who stood up for him—an old village blacksmith—and between them they set to work to bring the guilty party to justice and clear Dan's name.

"He's guilty, an' I know it!" said the miserly farmer for whom Dan worked.

"He is innocent, and it is a shame for you to say otherwise," declared the old blacksmith.

"Well, time will tell," answered the old farmer, and then he wanted Dan to come back and work for him.

"I'll not come back," said the boy. And then there was a bitter quarrel.

This story makes a splendid volume, bound in cloth, and is finely illustrated. The price is thirty-five cents, and it is published, like all the other Frank V. Webster books, exclusively by the Cupples & Leon Company, New York.