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 "PEesenuy,n replied the other, stDon's speak to me now.n And after some minutes intense application, he raised his head with bright, calm look and said, apve tinished What now, Arthur''
 "Hou are studying for ths mathematical prize, ] suppose, Frank1n said Arthur.
 "For the prize! Mo-" replied Francis, with surprise. "l never thought of such thing. Harry Forester will carry that of, of course. You know he is far a head of me-"
 "No--is hep said Arthur. .I did not know Il. What then makes you study SO,
 f you have no chance of the prize i'
 "Why, Arthur,n said Frank, laughing, eff we only study to gain prizes, most of us may as well close our books at once, for there are but half a dozen prizes, and over a hundred boys. What is your numbers''
 s.Oh, don't know. Pretty low. if l can't be head, don't care where am.- Mathematics is not the bent of my genius, !" replied Arthur.
 "Nor mine, that know of" said Frank -"but, hang 1t, my genius has got to bend to it for all that"
 And there was a resoluts tone, and look of determination that showed that Frank Ashhurst was one who did not look for said and comfort" to his ''genius" always, in diff l faculties.
 Mrs. Harrington smiled as she listened io the conversation. She said afterward to her husband
 sFrank is boy of no ambition But he IS steady. plodding lad, and very safe companion for Arthur He's heavy boy mo genius--very different from Arthur.o
 "And Arthur was boy, in truth, that would have gra,ifed the pride, and fa,tered the vanity, of most mothers, for he was what most parents like, precocious, sho,cy boy. He was quick in abilities, handsome in person, tall Of his age, with bright hazel eyes, and round, glowing cheek; graceful, too, Tn his manners. and very fluent in speech
 altogether striking boy--somewhat for- ward, perhaps--bul his good looks and cieverness made his peace with those who might have found fault with his want of dif- fidence.
 Now Frank was lad no one ever noticed. Perhaps now and then some one of unusual discernment might have said, ssthat youth se~ V AstsS SCNbtCuouSr1 Ouh U WdS d tCtIIdIk that always elicited surprise when it was made, formost persons would have said, with Mrs. Harrington, that he was 'sheavy boy.'' He was shorter by head nearly than Arthur, and heavily moulded, and people generally are apt to take the body for the soul, and judge the spirit by the 6esh And, then, though Frank had a fine brow, and clear, we'll set, deep eye, there was nothing of what Mrs. Harrington called the s'fash of genius in his look up.n It was a calm, earnest face, and when in study, there was an ln- density of expression, concentration of at- tentlon, that IS rare-oiherwise he was not a striking, and certainly not handsome boy. He was rather shy, too, and awkward when brought forward, and one of those who never made figure on "exhiblion daysp In shorL he was not ono of the sho,c boys, which Arthur was. Heads of schools, and teachers generally, are very quick to know the effect produced by such pupils as Arthur. They like to put them forward. All they know tells, and wha. they don't know is not seen Manner and appearance never go further than on such occasions. The hu- man heart naturally warns to beauty, and to youthful beauty il Is particularly indul- gent, and when united to any thing like precocity of talent, 1t is sure 10 take the greater part of parents.
 Consequently Arthur carried of more than one prize at the examinations, that. had he not been so highly endowed with external 1 gifts, might not have been so readily awar- ded him.
 But this exhibition, to Mrs. Harrington's surprise and modification, Arthur carried of none of the highest premiums. The boy himself was loud in his complaints of inius- | tice and ill-treasment, and Mrs. Harrington lent atwilling and indignant ear to all he said.
 It never, occurred to the loving mother that Arthur might not deserve the prizes. | She did not remember that his application had rather relaxed than increased with the | increasing difficulties Of his studies, and that | much of the time that should have been de- 1 voted to work had been passed in light reading, Or quite as often, perhaps, in talking with herself She only felt that Arthur had been most unjustly treated, and tried to soothe and console his wounded feelings, and talked of the s'too frequent fate of un- rewarded meri,.n But the more she talked, the keener grew his sense of sligh,ed talents. He grumbled and talked-and finally called his teacher names, and then his mother yiel- ded; for as she afterwards sald to her hus- band--"When boy loses his respect for his teachers, the moral influence that should work is destroyed And the good man ss- sented, without very clearly understanding what she meant He only comprehended that his wife was dissatisfied with Arihur's school, and he himself was indignant at the idea of his boys being treated with injustice. lie never inquired into Arthur's studies. nor examined into his progress. side had not time" He was a hard-working. money making man, and while he shaved body and soul to amass a fortune, he left the edaea- ton, mental, moral and physical, of his only son to his wife. A not uncommon case, we are sorrv in sav. for inc moAf ufelltreat A nd