. St. Nicholas [serial]. OF PREVENTION IS WORTH AN OLNCE OF — (A True Incident of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.) By Elsie C. Cranz. Liebe Mutter, and am I really to go to thecollege in the harvest month ? The speaker was a boy of about sixteenyears, an undersized, delicate-looking lad withserious gray eyes. He stood leaning againstthe well in the farm-yard — it was just outsidethe little Hessian village of M in the cen-tral part of Germany. It was late afternoon,and the sun was low in the heavens. The boyspoke again: Ach, liebe Mutter, and I amreally to go to college ? His mother,
. St. Nicholas [serial]. OF PREVENTION IS WORTH AN OLNCE OF — (A True Incident of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.) By Elsie C. Cranz. Liebe Mutter, and am I really to go to thecollege in the harvest month ? The speaker was a boy of about sixteenyears, an undersized, delicate-looking lad withserious gray eyes. He stood leaning againstthe well in the farm-yard — it was just outsidethe little Hessian village of M in the cen-tral part of Germany. It was late afternoon,and the sun was low in the heavens. The boyspoke again: Ach, liebe Mutter, and I amreally to go to college ? His mother, a care-worn woman of fortyyears, came toward him at this moment, andlooked upon him with a sweet, gentle smile. The lad had no thought now except for col-lege; and to see little Karl graduate withhonors had always been the dearest hope of herlife. They had talked of it and worked towardthis end for three long years, while Karl wasattending the Gymnasium in the village nearhis home. His father died when he was nineyears old, but under the economical care of themoth
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