every one would shout and wave their handkerchiefs. Hal never could find
his handkerchief in time to wave it, so he would clap his hands.

After the match was finished the men did some fancy shooting. They
held their rifles in-a great many queer ways. Sometimes they would fire from
‘under one arm, sometimes from over their shoulder. Hal wished that he could
. shoot like the men. He resolved that when he grew older he would practice
shooting until he could hit the center of the target.

The men did not seem to get tired of shooting, for they kept it up until it
grew. so dark they could not see the targets.

Hal was so tired that he had to be carried to the fort on his papa’s

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» HE gave an hour of patient care to her little baby sister, who was
cutting teeth.

- p She gave a string, and a crooked pin, and a great deal of good
advice, to the three-year-old brother who wanted to play at fishing.

She gave Ellen, the maid, a precious hour to go and visit her sick baby at
home, for Ellen was a widow, and left her child with its grandmother while she
worked to get bread for both.

She could not have seen them very often if our Mary had not offered to
attend the door while she was away.

But this is not all that Mary gave. She dressed herself so neatly and
looked so bright and kind and obliging, that she gave her mother a thrill of
pleasure whenever she caught sight of the young, pleasant face.

She wrote’a letter to her father, who was absent on business, and gave
patient attention to a long story by her grandmother, and when it was ended
made the old lady happy by a good-night kiss.

Thus she -had given valuable presents to six people, in one day, and yet
she had not a cent.