Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-14

Do you little boys and girls know
what heroism is? If you will listen 10
me a few minutes | will tell you how
q little boy five years old became a
hero.
Gregory was a little boy five years
old, as pretty a boy as you ever saw.
Every one said he was pretty and
sweet enough TO be a girl. He is a big
boy now, and rides a bicycle and
horses and gets into fights sometimes
coming home from school. He IL not
SO pretty now as when be was a little
fellow, and if he reads this story he
will be surprised that any one should
tell it to all of you children
Gregory had a little brother Tom,
two years old, a fat, easy-going, good
uatured. big-eyed little fellow that
| every enc loved. They lived in a town
in Texas where the northers come in
the winter and it gets very cold for q
few days and then turns warm again
and the children can 60 out and play
without wrapping up much.
One cold morning, a short While
after New Years day, these boys slept
| while th2i3 mamma and papa were at
breakfast. When they ct up and
were dressed, papa had gone down
town and mamma took them into the
dining room to eat breakfast while she
went into the sitting room TO see that
everything was warm and comfortable
for them to have a nice time in the
house all day, because 1t was too cold
for them 10 play outside.
Gregory and Tom ate their break
fast in short order and went oyer 10
the big fireplace to pay and warm.
Tom picked up n piece Of paper from
the floor and lit the end Of it in the
hot Goals in the Fireplace, and when
1t began 10 burn up he threw it on the
hearth and put his foot on IL to put it
out. But the fame was too large for
his little foot, and his dress caught
fire. When he looked down and saw
the flames leaping up on his skirt
he called out, "Oh, Geg! look here
GregoC' locked and saw his little
brothers dress on fire, with the flames
almost In his face. Do you think he
ran down the hall to the room where
his mamma was TO tell her? No. he
didn't. He just gave II bound TO
where little Tom stood, and, catching
the little dress at the neck. tore it off
and stamped the fire out with his feet.
And there stood Tom. with his big
yves biSScI tltdH eNtI. HIS uiuItI Shil l
all scorched and no dress ON at all.
Dick, a big, black, awkward, over
grown boy who helped his old nanny
about the kitchen and did the chores,
a cleaning up in the kitchen. Tom
said, Lets tell Dick, but we mustn't
tell mamma. cause she'll phip," and
into the kitchen they went. When
mamma came in 10 see what was keep
ing the children so long in the dining
room she saw Tom with bullying eyes
looking at Dick, while Gregory was re-
lating what had happened. Mamma
saw Tom standing there without his
dress, and a lock Of excitement on the
chi,dren's faces, so she said. What is
the matter, where is Toms Dress"
Then Gregory began TO relate how
Toms dress had caught fire, and he
had torn the dress off and put out the
fire. But here he broke down and
cried, and m took him in her
arms and told him how proud she vas
OF him, and that he must not cry, for
he had done an heroic act, for he had
saved his brother from a severe burn,
which might have resulted in his
death.
Then Gregory said he was crying be-
cause his hands hurt, and mamma
looked, and sure enough both hands
We're badly blisteTed-Dallag News.