8 KIT CURIOUS.

 

not embrace a vast number of remarka-
bly great men or great women. The
truth is—I will speak it out—Christo-
_ pher Curious (we will call him K¢
Curious, if you please, for the sake
of shortness) is mostly famous among
children. I know scores of boys and
girls, who look upon him as one of the
most wonderful men that the world
ever saw. ‘They think, I presume,
that there never was another head so
full of wisdom, as the one which hap-
pened to grow on the shoulders of Kit
Curious. That wisdom will die with
him, is a truth scarcely disputed in