Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — Undaunted. [ARTICLE]

Undaunted.

A lively desire is a great sharpener of the wits, and it is likely enough that the boy of whom the following story i 3 toll in an exchange is no brighter than other boys when it comes to grammar and arithmetic. He wa3 cleaning hi* skates and whistling merrily when his mother remarked: “The paper this morning ha* an account of a little boy who was drowned while skating on thin ice.” The boy ceased whistling, but kept on rubbing the skate iron. “Too bad:” said he. “I wonder if he was any relation to the poor little boy who was killed the other day bv an electric while on his way to school ”