. Nast's Illustrated Almanac 1873 . /-t, v^ II i| I III dren, and telHng her to spend it freely, but not to be extravagant, because extravaganceis a sin; and pictures of him magnanimously refusing to tell on the bad boy who al-ways lay in wait for him around the comer, as he came from school, and welted himover the head with a lath, and then chased him home, saying Hi! hi! as he pro-ceeded. That was the ambition of young Jacob Blivens. He wished to be put in aSunday-school book. It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he re-flected that the good little boys always died. He loved
. Nast's Illustrated Almanac 1873 . /-t, v^ II i| I III dren, and telHng her to spend it freely, but not to be extravagant, because extravaganceis a sin; and pictures of him magnanimously refusing to tell on the bad boy who al-ways lay in wait for him around the comer, as he came from school, and welted himover the head with a lath, and then chased him home, saying Hi! hi! as he pro-ceeded. That was the ambition of young Jacob Blivens. He wished to be put in aSunday-school book. It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he re-flected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you know, and this was 24 NASrS ALMANAC FOR the most unpleasant feature about being a Sunday-school-book boy. He knew it was not healthy tobe good. He knew it was more fatal than con-sumption to be so supernaturally good as the boysin the books were ; he knew that none of them hadever been able to stand it long, and it pained himto think that if they put him in a book he wouldntever see it, or even if they did get the book outbefore he died, it wouldnt be popular without anyjiicture of his funeral in the back part of it. Itcouldnt be much of a Sunday-school book thatcouldnt tell about the advice he gave to the com-munity when he was dying. So, at last, of course he had to make up his mind to do the best he could under the circumstances—to liveright, and hang on as long as he could, and have his dying speech all ready when histime came. But, somehow, nothing ever went right with this good little boy ; nothing ever turnedout with him the way it turned out with the good little boys in the books. They al-ways had a good time, and
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