The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 217
of them, piled oneupon the other, would be but an inch thick! Anda flake of gold tiny as a pinhead can be drawnout in a finer thread than ever man spun, in aspider-thread—to a length of 500 feet. There is no end to the uses of gold. Theybroaden every day. In one of its many forms,our Yellow Slave… … THE BOY WHO RODE ON THE FIRST TRAIN BY MARY K. MAULE Let me tell you a curious little story told to me afew years ago by an old man of Norwood, LongIsland, aged ninety-four; but away back in theearly 30s he did something that no boy had everdone before, and that no boy will ever do again —for he…
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