True Nobles and Fleroes. 15

cesses of Hannibal’s arms, and the wondrous
achievements of his Alpine campaign, we learn
the natural results of the noble thoughts
instilled into his mind when but a boy
(though we mourn its misdirection). Go ye,
lads, and resolve also; for I assert that the
resolutions of schoolboys do not end there,.
and that the case of Nelson fighting with
the white Polar bear without the least sign
of fear (when but a boy), is but one illus-
tration of the true manly spirit existing in
the minds of our British youths. I suppose
you have often heard the story (doubted
however, by those who knew him best), that
when Nelson was asked if he had no fear, he
replied, “ What is it, sir?” Would that all
our boys feared none else but God, not the
fear that hath torment, but the child-like fear
of grieving.

Another case of heroism worth recording
is that of young Lucas, the sub-lieutenant,
who, while in the Baltic during the Crimean
war, on board the man-of-war Hecla, saw a
shell which had been thrown from the
enemy’s ship, reach the deck of his own
vessel. The fusee was lighted, and in a few