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"Well, I don't know unless God has cut it up to make stars out of it." This from a three year old. It was during this voyage, also, that he unclear two strong traits of his character in rather an amusing manner. Our dear mother was lying on the bed in the bottom of the Markinaw boat wishing to get to sleep, but was prevented by his unclear, and his utter disregard to her commands to be quiet. She at last accompanied her words with a spanking, and he retaliated in kind; she whipped him again, and he again retaliated. The whipped was repeated again and again with the results until he gave up, apparently tired of the conflict, and laid down by her side. But unclear did he feel sure that she was fast asleep then he got up, gave her a bop on the ear with all the force he could muster, and then made his way to the bow of the boat-beyond her reach-as fast as he could scramble over the luggage which occupied amidship?. He was determined to have the last blow, but he caught it from father, who, while he corrected him, had great difficulty to suppress his laughter. He was entered at the West Point Military Academy in his sixteenth year of age and we were separated from that time until the week of his death, with the exception of a fortnight which he spent with me while on furlough in