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carry out into their daily life the wise precepts of Samuel Smiles. I myself, have tried to do so, and have received a great stimulus in all my work.

I note with a great deal of concern and misgiving the unincreased proportions of my frame. I have taken after each meal a spoonful of Elmo's Cod Liver Oil, and the only effect it has yet had upon me is a nauseating anad disgusting taste in my mouth after each dose, and a loathsome dread for the next one. As long as my candy lasted I placed one of these in my mouth after taking the medicine in order to diminish the bitterness of it, but now that my candy is gone I am compelled to gulp down the dose without the edulcorating influence of the chocolate creams.

Having received, last week, a severe concussion on the seat of my best and only trousers I was under the painful necessity last night of mending them. As it was only a rip; and, furthermore, as I had no other ones to wear I was compelled to sew them up after I had gone to bed. It is needless to say that I made an excellent and stylish job of it. Unless you made a microscopic examination you would think that a tailor had performed the operation upon my seating capacity instead of myself. Well I must close now, as I have written a long enough letter.

Love to all and the most for yourself

I am, your boy,

F. Jewell