Boys Who Make Great Men.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 28, 10 July 1902, Page 29

Boys Who Make Great Men.

A Swedish boy fell out of a window and wtis badly hurt, but with clinched hps he kept back the cry ofj pain. Tho King Ciustavus Adolphus, who saw the boy fall, prophesied that the boy would make a man for an emergency lie did. for he became the famous (ieneral Bauer. A boy used lv v ush tliu fluwu , to get their color, and painted tho white Mdc oi Int. fathei 's cottage m tho Tyrol with all horts of pictures, which the mountaineers gazed at as wonderful. lie was the great ai'tist, Titian An old painter watched a little fellow who amused himself making drawings of his pot and brushes, easel and stool, and said : ' That boy will beat me one day.' He did, for ho was Michael Angelo. A German boy was reading a blood and thunder novel Kight m the midst of it he said to himself . 'Now this will ne\er do I get too much excited over it 1 can't study so well after it. So here goes ! ' And he flung the book out into the river, lie was Fichte, the great German philosopher.