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be a man behind it, and mind makes the man here in America,”

said Ralph, “one day, threatening to swell to the size of a Fourth of
July speech.

“ But it is in’em, the blood after all,’ the mother said to herself.
“Their ancestors fought at Concord Bridge.”

Ralph was about fourteen, and Rick three years and a half younger.
Rick was just the sort of boy to get into a scrape, enthusiastic and
impulsive, and Ralph who was a bit cooler, would sometimes prove to
be the very boy to get Rick out of a scrape. Rick had a face for-

 

CONCORD BRIDGE.

ever on the smile, his blue eyes laughing, and his mouth also, except
—look out for such moments! When Rick looked sober, and talk-
ing excitedly, said, “See—see, R—Ralph! Look-er here! Couldn’t
you and I””—his mother did not need to hear the rest.

“Oh, dear, what is Rick up to now?” she would exclaim.

Rick’s soberness meant that the mischievous thought laughing out
of his eyes and mouth, had shaped itself into a plan, and would