KIT CURIOUS. 9

 

their ranks. You can guess the rea-
son why they think so, can’t you,
reader? It is because the old man
never gets tired of entertaining them
with his pleasant and instructive chit-
chat.

Still, it must be admitted, let the
Judgment of his young friends be what
it may, that Kit Curious, when he trayv-
els out of the circle of the little boys
and girls who hang on his words with
such interest, is not set down as a
great man, by any means. He is not
wonderfully learned in Latin and Greek,
or in logic and mathematics. A good