wins because he sticks to it and plods away.

If you are tempted to trust too much to your brightness, remember the
animals who made fun of the inch-worm. If you are dull, remember the
inch-worm, take courage, and plod away. You will get there sometime.




THE FRENCH DRUMMER-BOY


I want to tell you to-day of one of the bravest deeds ever done by a
boy.

It happened this way. Back in the year 1793, when the French people were
having trouble with their king and queen, and finally put them to death,
the rulers called in soldiers from other nations to help them against
their own people. The foreign soldiers met the French troops before a
town called Maubeuge, and there a fierce battle was fought.

The fiercest part of the fighting was carried on against Hungarian
Grenadiers, who held the market-place of the town. During this charge a
drummer-boy in the French army saw that his countrymen were having a
hard time of it, so he slipped around back of these Hungarian soldiers
to the other side of the market-place, right in the thick of the enemy,
and there drummed the charge, in order to make his comrades think that
some of the French soldiers had already pushed through the enemy's
ranks, and so encourage the others to push on.